What is a Key Pair?
Keys are used to encrypt and decrypt data sent over a network. Instead of using the same key to encrypt and decrypt it is more secure to use a private key to encrypt and a public key to decrypt data. For example, when a message is sent from location A it is encrypted before it is sent with a private key, only the sender knows the key, for the recipient to be able to read the message it must first be decrypted. This happens with the public key, a key available to anyone to use to decrypt messages sent from the owner and encrypted with the private key. Only the public key that matches the private key used for encryption will be able to decrypt the message, this allows for greater security.
