Chapter Review
Cryptography is in many ways the key to security in many systems. The progression of technology has allowed systems to be built to retrieve the secrets of others. More and more information is being digitized and then stored and sent via computers. Storing and transmitting valuable data and keeping it secure can be best accomplished with encryption.
In this chapter, you have seen the message digest one-way functions for passwords and message integrity checks. You have also examined the symmetric encryption algorithms used for encrypting data at high speeds. Finally, you have learned about the operation of asymmetric cryptography that is used for key management and digital signatures. These are three distinct types of encryption ...
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