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CompTIA A+ 220-901

Category - Hardware and Network Troubleshooting

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To decrypt encrypted email, what does the user need on the local computer?
  1. the public key
  2. the private key
  3. the public and the private key
  4. a decryption application
Explanation
Answer: B - The private key is used to decrypt encrypted email.

A user has two keys for asymmetric encryption. The private key is only accessible to the user and should be installed in the email client. The public key is what external users use to encrypt the message and send it to the recipient with the private key.
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