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 | | The standard explanations like "with public key cryptography, two keys are generated, a public key and a private key; the private key the individual keeps to himself, and the public key is shared with everyone" doesn't really convey the power behind this technology. |
 | | So if something is encrypted with a private key, only the corresponding public key can unlock it, and everybody has access to the public key, so everyone can verify that only one person locked it. |
 | | New York Telephone, AT&T Long Lines, Western Electric, and Bell Labs contingents converged on the area, and a crisis headquarters -- inevitably called a war room -- was established in a rented storefront on Fourteenth Street, under the immediate direction of Lee Oberst, New York City area vice- president of New York Telephone. |
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