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Details of Cryptography
A user’s manual describes the interface to and functions of a software product. If you really want to know how a piece of software is built, how it works, how to embed it in another piece of software, or what its detailed specifications are, you need a different kind of documentation. You do not normally need any of these advanced topics just to use the software, however.
This chapter complements the presentation of encryption in Chapter 2. In that earlier chapter we introduced cryptography as a tool we then used many times in later ...
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