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Practical Cryptography
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Practical Cryptography

by Saiful Azad, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
365 pages
6h 56m
English
Auerbach Publications
Content preview from Practical Cryptography

1BASICS OF SECURITY AND CRYPTOGRAPHY

AL-SAKIB KHAN PATHAN

Contents

Keywords

1.1 The Perimeter of Cryptography in Practice

1.2 Things That Cryptographic Technologies Cannot Do

Keywords

Asymmetri

Cipher

Cryptography

Cryptology

Key

Plaintext

Private

Public

Security

Symmetric

To begin with, the purpose of this book is not to delve into the history of cryptography or to analyze the debate on the first occurrence of the technique in communications technologies. Instead, we aim to clarify various basic terminologies to give lucid understanding of the subject matter. Throughout the book, we will see various approaches to utilizing cryptographic techniques along with practical codes; however, the intent of this first chapter is to set the basics for the ...

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ISBN: 9781482228892