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4. Cryptosecurity

Slava Gomzin1  
(1)
Frisco, TX, USA
 

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

—Katharine Hepburn

Strictly speaking, cryptosecurity is a discipline that covers communications security using cryptography. Recently, however, this word received a different meaning: security of cryptocurrencies. I think there is a good chance that the new definition will eventually replace the original one because more and more people are worried about the security of their crypto, while very few scholars (at least compared to the global army of crypto users) are dealing with cryptography ...

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