PKI

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PKI

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abbreviation, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Public Key Infrastructure, a computerised form of message encryption using two keys (small files); one is public and used by the sender to encrypt the message; the other is private and used by the recipient to decrypt it.

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@misc{pki_2026,
  title = {PKI},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pki},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}