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What are Asymmetric Keys used for? and Which applications use it?

Keys are used to open doors, cars, wardrobes, and other accessible stuff. Keys are also used in information security to deal with confidentiality, integrity, and authentication issues.

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Question added by Ahmad Yassein , Infrastructure Network Manager , Ministry of International Cooperation (MIC)
Date Posted: 2013/11/26

Asymmetric Keys are used in PKI infrastructure, It has2 key, Public key and Private key. The message encrypted with Public will only be decrypted by private key.  Public keys are shared, Where are private keys are kept secret ( they are not shared ).  HTTPS is an example for application used.

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