codebooks, so ciphers are now the dominant technique in modern cryptography. In contrast, because codes are representational, they are not susceptible to mathematical...
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(coded) message shares the decryption (decoding) technique only with the intended recipients to preclude access from adversaries. The cryptography literature...
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography is a book by Simon Singh, published in 1999 by Fourth Estate and Doubleday...
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Post-quantum cryptography (PQC), sometimes referred to as quantum-proof, quantum-safe, or quantum-resistant, is the development of cryptographic algorithms...
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are used for data compression, cryptography, error detection and correction, data transmission and data storage. Codes are studied by various scientific...
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In cryptography, a message authentication code (MAC), sometimes known as an authentication tag, is a short piece of information used for authenticating...
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Cryptography, the use of codes and ciphers, began thousands of years ago. Until recent decades, it has been the story of what might be called classical...
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A cryptographic hash function (CHF) is a hash algorithm (a map of an arbitrary binary string to a binary string with a fixed size of n {\displaystyle...
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HMAC (redirect from Keyed-hash message authentication code)
In cryptography, an HMAC (sometimes expanded as either keyed-hash message authentication code or hash-based message authentication code) is a specific...
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Cryptanalysis (redirect from Cryptographic attack)
is used to breach cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages, even if the cryptographic key is unknown. In...
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it suitable for use in cryptography. It is also referred to as a cryptographic random number generator (CRNG). Most cryptographic applications require random...
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and amended. Code (cryptography) Genetic code Language Legal code (municipal) List of national legal systems Source code Visigothic Code Chisholm, Hugh...
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and topical guide to cryptography: Cryptography (or cryptology) – practice and study of hiding information. Modern cryptography intersects the disciplines...
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Clifford Cocks • Clipper chip • Clock (cryptography) • Clock drift • CMVP • COCONUT98 • Codebook • Code (cryptography) • Code talker • Codress message • Cold...
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Obfuscation (software) (redirect from Cryptographic obfuscation)
Cryptographers have explored the idea of obfuscating code so that reverse-engineering the code is cryptographically hard. This is formalized in the many proposals...
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One-time password (redirect from One-time authorization code)
One-time pad Code (cryptography) § One-time code OPIE Authentication System OTPW Personal identification number Public key infrastructure QR Code S/KEY Security...
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Bouncy Castle is a collection of APIs used for implementing cryptography in computer programs. It includes APIs for both the Java and the C# programming...
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cryptography from the United States to other countries has experienced various levels of restrictions over time. World War II illustrated that code-breaking...
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Cipher (category Cryptography)
message; however, the concepts are distinct in cryptography, especially classical cryptography. Codes generally substitute different length strings of...
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Visual cryptography is a cryptographic technique which allows visual information (pictures, text, etc.) to be encrypted in such a way that the decrypted...
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Public-key cryptography, or asymmetric cryptography, is the field of cryptographic systems that use pairs of related keys. Each key pair consists of a...
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In cryptography, a salt is random data fed as an additional input to a one-way function that hashes data, a password or passphrase. Salting helps defend...
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Cryptography was used extensively during World War II because of the importance of radio communication and the ease of radio interception. The nations...
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Elliptic-curve cryptography (ECC) is an approach to public-key cryptography based on the algebraic structure of elliptic curves over finite fields. ECC...
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by software <code></code>, an HTML element Code (coding theory), a subset of cardinality at least two of a Hamming space Code (cryptography), device for...
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Books on cryptography have been published sporadically and with variable quality for a long time. This is despite the paradox that secrecy is of the essence...
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integrate security into application code.[citation needed] Java Cryptography Extension Bouncy Castle (cryptography) Official JCA guides: JavaSE6, JavaSE7...
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Symmetric-key algorithm (redirect from Symmetric key cryptography)
Symmetric-key algorithms are algorithms for cryptography that use the same cryptographic keys for both the encryption of plaintext and the decryption of...
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A key in cryptography is a piece of information, usually a string of numbers or letters that are stored in a file, which, when processed through a cryptographic...
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