What Are Public and Private Keys: An Intro to the Mathematics of Crypto Security

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Cryptocurrency security is based on a mathematical idea known as asymmetric cryptography. Two cryptographically related keys are used simultaneously to establish an unbreakable security system. Your private key is an extremely large random number and is usually 256 bits long.