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In response to your peers, select one of the situations described by a peer and think about a way that you could increase the overall security measures of the situation. Use a systems thinking approach, and think outside of the box!

Robert Hubbert

Symmetric encryption is a speedy tool that is beneficial for short term communication (or data sessions that are short). It provides confidentiality to data in transit like authentication or financial transactions. Because symmetric encryption is faster than asymmetric, it can be used for storage media to offer some protection with a focus on speed. An example would be using symmetric encryption to authenticate to a local router or near by wireless device. The authentication action needs to be confidential but smaller/simpler devices don't have many resources. Using symmetric encryption reduces the resource requirement and improves speed while maintaining confidentiality.

Asymmetric encryption is a more secure option with other abilities like providing digital signatures and compatibility with public key infrastructures. This type of encryption would be used in a windows active directory domain service (ADDS) for authenticating. Security is a priority for an ADDS environment and we'd want to prevent outsiders from breaking the encryption or becoming a man in the middle.