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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 545 of 611

Why do protocols such as TLS use asymmetric cryptography only to establish a symmetric session key?

• Security architecture
• Cryptography

1. Because asymmetric algorithms cannot encrypt large messages at all
2. Because symmetric encryption is far faster for bulk data
3. Because symmetric keys cannot be exchanged securely
4. Because asymmetric keys expire more quickly

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