"I'm the only one aboard this ship who knows the encryption key."
"But with a public encryption key, anyone could read your messages."
This encryption key is only valid for traffic to and from the access point.
This often involves the use of an encryption key as well.
And to do that you need to put encryption keys onto your video card.
The problem is that it costs money to put these individual encryption keys onto each video card.
As you figured out, that number is your personal encryption key.
However, the hackers have no control of the encryption key.
So you can actually give it the actual encryption key.
Which is where you'd be if your encryption key were compromised.