Hybrid Encryption

Hi guys ,

I'm taking a cyber security class , and this question came up in our past paper :

Exercise 4.6.4 (Hybrid Encryption). Briefly explain two advantages of hybrid encryption systems, i.e., implementations that use both symmetric and asymmetric
encryption schemes for encrypting data. I tried getting an answer from the professor but he never replied lol.

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What I'm thinking: We can use asymmetric encryption to distribute the symmetric keys . This solves the key distribute problem in …

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