https://community.isc2.org/t5/Tech-Talk/CCSP-Public-Private-Key-Pairs/m-p/79844#M4879 <P>I feel the way this sentence is written provides us with the wrong impression of cryptographic keys.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I believe cryptographic keys are made up of zeros and ones which are represented in hexadecimal format to make it more easily read by people.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>But, the official online curriculum says “strings of numbers”.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="IMG_0020.jpeg" style="width: 580px;"><img src="https://community.isc2.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9794i5084632E99E09F82/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="IMG_0020.jpeg" alt="IMG_0020.jpeg" /></span></P> Sun, 04 May 2025 16:08:23 GMT Spirnia 2025-05-04T16:08:23Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Tech-Talk/CCSP-Public-Private-Key-Pairs/m-p/79844#M4879 <P>I feel the way this sentence is written provides us with the wrong impression of cryptographic keys.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I believe cryptographic keys are made up of zeros and ones which are represented in hexadecimal format to make it more easily read by people.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>But, the official online curriculum says “strings of numbers”.</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="IMG_0020.jpeg" style="width: 580px;"><img src="https://community.isc2.org/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/9794i5084632E99E09F82/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="IMG_0020.jpeg" alt="IMG_0020.jpeg" /></span></P> Sun, 04 May 2025 16:08:23 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Tech-Talk/CCSP-Public-Private-Key-Pairs/m-p/79844#M4879 Spirnia 2025-05-04T16:08:23Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Tech-Talk/CCSP-Public-Private-Key-Pairs/m-p/79852#M4883 <P>MHOO you are correct at the machine level they are ones and zeros but when most folk discuss keys, they talk about them ad numbers of letters.&nbsp; Also presenting the keys as letters or numbers is more efficient than presenting them as ones and zeros.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Others?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>d</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Sun, 04 May 2025 18:30:01 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Tech-Talk/CCSP-Public-Private-Key-Pairs/m-p/79852#M4883 dcontesti 2025-05-04T18:30:01Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Tech-Talk/CCSP-Public-Private-Key-Pairs/m-p/79856#M4886 Thank you! Sun, 04 May 2025 18:59:11 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Tech-Talk/CCSP-Public-Private-Key-Pairs/m-p/79856#M4886 Spirnia 2025-05-04T18:59:11Z