ANSI X9.79-2013 addresses the management and security of asymmetric keys for protecting financial information and other associated data independent of the asymmetric algorithm, schemes or public key cryptography protocol. An asymmetric key pair consists of a mathematically related private key and public key that are jointly created using an asymmetric key generation algorithm. Only the public key (often encapsulated within an X.509 certificate issued by a certification authority) is distributed to the relying party. The corresponding private key must be retained by the originating party.