Symmetrical vs asymmetrical Encryption Pros and Cons by Example

Encryption is the process of scrambling data to protect personal files, secure communication, hide identities and much more.
In this video we will learn about the different type of encryptions we will talk about symmetric encryption, asymmetrical encryption, where they are used for and the pros and cons of each one.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:50 Symmetric Encryption
9:40 Asymmetric Encryption
14:40 Symmetric Encryption Pros and Cons
17:05 Asymmetric Encryption Pros and Cons
20:20 Summary
1. Symmetric encryption
2. Asymmetrical encrypt
3. Pros and cons of Symmetric vs Asymmetric
Symmetric encryption
Might as well just call it classic encryption I would argue and i think this is the first encryption known to us. I have something I dont want anyone to see I use a lock key to lock it. Only I can open it unless I have a lock.
The same key you use to encrypt is the same key to Decrypt.
Examples
Examples of popular symmetric-key algorithms include
AES
Twofish
Serpent
DES
Twofish, Serpent, AES (Rijndael), Blowfish
CAST5, Kuznyechik, RC4, DES, 3DES, Skipjack, Safer+/++ (Bluetooth), and IDEA
Asymmetrical encryptions
We had symmetric encryptions for a long time, then internet came and networking and we needed to encrypt messages going back and forth. We said cool lets use AES. Then we said wait a second.. the other computer doesn't really have my key so we need to encrypt it..
Also called Public key encryption
1977
Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)
* Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol
* DSS (Digital Signature Standard), which incorporates the Digital Signature Algorithm
* ElGamal
* Various elliptic curve techniques
* Various password-authenticated key agreement techniques
* Paillier cryptosystem
* RSA encryption algorithm (PKCS#1)
* Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem
* YAK authenticated key agreement protocol
So TLS for example first transfer the symmetric key using asymmetrical encryption then communicate all the way using sym encryption
Symmetric encryption
pros
faster
Can be used to encrypt large data scales
cons
Very hard to transport the key 🔑
ASymmetric encryption
Pros
Keys can be shared across a network
Perfect for encryption small data such as ssh
cons
Slow
Rsa slower then aes
Cannot be used to
(1,2)
Number to power 1 mod 2
Summary
Sym. Encryption is used to encrypt large files, same key to encrypt is the same key to deycrpt they are very fast and efficient but keys need to exist on both machines to communicate.
Asym encryption can one key encrypt another key decrypts public key is
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Notes: - Symmetic encryption : same key can be used to encrypt and decrypt. All good when you're on one system. But when networking comes into picture, how would you tell other person about this key? If you tell without any encryption then middle-man can sniff this key. - Asymmetric encryption : requires public key and private key. public key is what you open to public, so anyone can use that to encrypt when they send messages to you. private key is used to decrypt those messages by your system. Given the mathematical computation it does with primes, it's quite slow, so never gets used for large data. What happens in real world? For example in HTTPS -- we use Asymmetric encryption for initiation of communication. So the initial "key" (for symmetric encryption) is shared via asymmetric encryption route. Once that gets transferred, further communication happens via symmetric encryption.

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the other use case is for digital signature. Where you can encrypt with private key and decrypt with public key. You cant use the same public key to encrypt and decrypt otherwise its useless

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I read somewhere that Diffie-Hellman cannot be used for asymmetric exchange but here he mentioned that as one of the examples of Asymmetric implementations. Can someone explain?

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So the server will use the clients public key to encrypt the data so the client can use its private key to decrypt. This means the client should have the server public key and the server should have the client’s public key. Normally however this is better done using symmetric encryption and client and server exchange the shared key with key exchange algorithm such as diffi hellman

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