County of Union, New Jersey. Although the issuance of passports is done by the federal passport agency, the County Clerkâs Passport Office, acting as an agent, is available to assist in the preparation of the application which, in turn, is forwarded to the State Department.
A problem with asymmetric encryption, however, is that it is slower than symmetric encryption. It requires far more processing power to both encrypt and decrypt the content of the message. To use asymmetric encryption, there must be a way for people to discover other public keys.
The keys which EFS uses to encrypt and decrypt data, is a public and private key pair, and a per file encryption key. EFS generates a file encryption key (FEK) which is a symmetric encryption key to encrypt the data. The File Encryption Key (FEK) is next encrypted by means of asymmetric encryption using the userâs public key. Asymmetric encryption actually uses a public and private key pair for stronger security.