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.
For an example of asymmetric communications, see Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL). In telecommunications, the term asymmetric (also asymmetrical or non-symmetrical) refers to any system in which the data speed or quantity differs in one direction as compared with the other direction, averaged over time.