True or false: "Public Key Cryptography" and "asymmetric cryptography" are the same thing.

True — they are synonymous terms for the same concept.

Both terms refer to cryptographic systems that use a key pair: a public key and a private key. The terms are used interchangeably in the literature:

• Public Key Cryptography emphasizes that one key is made public
• Asymmetric Cryptography emphasizes that the two keys are different (asymmetric), unlike symmetric crypto where both parties share the same key

Whether you say "public-key" or "asymmetric," you're referring to the same family of algorithms: RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ECC, ElGamal, etc.

Tip: Don't overthink this one — the German term "gleichbedeutend" (synonymous) explicitly confirms the equivalence.