How many public keys can correspond with a matching private key?

In public key cryptography, every public key matches to only one private key. Together, they are used to encrypt and decrypt messages. If you encode a message using a person's public key, they can only decode it using their matching private key.

1. How many public keys can a private key have?
2. Can we have multiple public keys with a single private key for RSA?
3. How many public keys per private key bitcoin?
4. What is the relationship between private key and public key?

How many public keys can a private key have?

While you can generate a public key with a private key, doing the opposite is practically impossible because of the one-way “trapdoor” function. You can have any number of public keys connected to a private key.

Can we have multiple public keys with a single private key for RSA?

1 Answer. Save this answer. Show activity on this post. You can't have two different public keys for the same RSA private key.

How many public keys per private key bitcoin?

In Bitcoin, the private and public keys are 256-bit numbers which makes a complete number of conceivable private and public keys of 2^256.

What is the relationship between private key and public key?

Private key is used for both encrypting and decrypting the sensitive data. It is shared between the sender and receiver of encrypted data. Public key is used only for the purpose of encrypting the data.