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Cryptography, or
cryptology (from
Ancient Gr****: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptós "hidden, secret"; and γράφειν graphein, "to write", or -λογία -logia, "study"...
- Post-quantum
cryptography (PQC),
sometimes referred to as quantum-proof, quantum-safe, or quantum-resistant, is the
development of
cryptographic algorithms...
- 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...
- Public-key
cryptography, or
asymmetric cryptography, is the
field of
cryptographic systems that use
pairs of
related keys. Each key pair
consists of a...
- In
cryptography, a salt is
random data fed as an
additional input to a one-way
function that
hashes data, a p****word or p****phrase.
Salting helps defend...
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Quantum cryptography is the
science of
exploiting quantum mechanical properties to
perform cryptographic tasks. The best
known example of
quantum cryptography...
- Elliptic-curve
cryptography (ECC) is an
approach to public-key
cryptography based on the
algebraic structure of
elliptic curves over
finite fields. ECC...
- In
cryptography,
encryption (more specifically, encoding) is the
process of
transforming information in a way that, ideally, only
authorized parties can...
- 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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Financial cryptography is the use of
cryptography in
applications in
which financial loss
could result from
subversion of the
message system. Financial...
