• Flyswat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Maybe for performance so as to decrease the chances of detection

    Edit: sorry disregard my comment, I read that as “symmetric”. In the case of asymmetric they can only deploy one part of the key which if intercepted cannot be used to decrypt.

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      1 day ago

      Yeah that makes sense, I figured they’d just spin up a symmetric key, use it, send it home and delete it locally.