concept cryptographic primitive in category cryptography
appears as: cryptographic primitive, cryptographic primitives, cryptographic primitives, A cryptographic primitive, cryptographic primitive, The cryptographic primitive
This is an excerpt from Manning's book Real-World Cryptography MEAP V09.
Two large categories of cryptographic primitives stand out from the rest: symmetric and asymmetric cryptography.
A cryptographic primitive is a type of cryptographic algorithm. For example, symmetric encryption is a cryptographic primitive, while AES is a specific symmetric encryption algorithm.
Figure 6.15. RSA-OAEP, like many public-key algorithms, first need to generate a keypair that can be used later in the other algorithms provided by the cryptographic primitive.
