So What Does A Modern Encryption Key Look Like?

So what does an encryption key look like these days? Well, it depends on whether your a computer or a human. For a computer, it is just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s, but for humans, we are not so good at interpreting binary. We also need a bit more information about the key, such as when it was created.

And so the JSON format is often used to view a key, and Google Tink is a great place…