You have just secured a new job with a new firm that is very security conscious. You’ve been instructed to learn as much as possible about encryption to ensure the confidentiality of customer transactions as well as electronic communications about new research and development projects.
-You decide to use public key encryption to protect e-commerce transactions.Once the browser uses the public key it receives from the server to encrypt the credit card information,who can decrypt the message?
A) you
B) any user you authorize in the firm
C) any hacker who intercepts the transaction
D) the Web server with access to the private key

Question

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Only the Web server with access to the private key can decrypt the message encrypted with the public key. This ensures that only authorized parties within the company can access the sensitive information. Unauthorized users, including hackers who intercept the transaction, will not have access to the private key and therefore will not be able to decrypt the message.

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