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.
1.2.3. Well, Private Key/Public Key encryption algorithms are great, but they are not usually practical. It is asymmetric because you need the other key pair to decrypt. You can't use the same key to encrypt and decrypt. An algorithm using the same key to decrypt and encrypt is deemed to have a symmetric key.