Cryptography

CRYPTOGRAPHY NOTES

key terms :

1. hash
2. SHA-256
3. Digest
4. Salt
5. HMAC

How to securely roll out api keys to users using public private key encryption ?

The server generates a public / private key pair, shows the user the private key. The private key is never stored in the db or any server side part.

The public key is stored in a transactional db / cache db.