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What are secret key algorithms?

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What are secret key algorithms?

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Secret key algorithms use the same key for both encryption and decryption (or one is easily derivable from the other). This is the more straightforward approach to data encryption than public key algorithms but it is mathematically less complicated, and has been used for many centuries.