Types of Encryption

  • Identify key issues of cryptography and be able to explain basic cryptographic methods in use today.

    • Identify encryption types.

As you learned in the preceding section, encryption can be used in a number of different ways.

There are a huge number of encryption algorithms—that is, the step-by-step procedures used to scramble data. These include RSA, RC4, DES, and others with more colorful names, such as Blowfish, Twofish, Safer, and FEAL.

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Elliptic Curve Algorithms Elliptic curve algorithms can speed up public key operations by using a complex factoring method that defines rules for adding two points on a curve to obtain a third point that is also on the curve. Shorter keys can be used (which are faster and require less ...

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