Cryptography

Neal Koblitz

A chapter in Mathematics Unlimited — 2001 and Beyond, 2001, pp 749-769 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Broadly speaking, the term cryptography refers to a wide range of security issues in the transmission and safeguarding of information. Historically, the main use of cryptography was to encipher messages; but in recent years other tasks, such as digital signatures, have become at least as important as encryption.

Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-56478-9_38

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