The idea of public$-$key cryptography is to generate a public key and a private key pair such that encryption using the public key can only be decrypted using the private key. Thus, if Alice wants to transmit a secret key to Bob without sharing prior secrets between them, Alice can use Bob's public key to encrypt the secret key and transmitted to cipher text over to Bob. Bob can then uses his private key to decrypt the cipher text and obtain the secret key.

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