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1. Basic Concepts and Historical Overview

Authors : Czesław Kościelny, Mirosław Kurkowski, Marian Srebrny

Published in: Modern Cryptography Primer

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Cryptography is the science of transforming, or encoding, information into a form non-comprehensible for anyone who does not know an appropriate key. In such forms information can be securely transferred via any communication channel or stored in data archives with its access restricted or even forbidden (for one reason or another). Cryptography is a part of a broader discipline called cryptology, which includes also so-called cryptanalysis—the art of breaking codes (ciphers), i.e., regaining the content of encrypted messages without an authorized access to the decryption keys.

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Footnotes
1
For more on this background topic the reader is referred to [27, 68].
 
2
See Table 2.1 in [68].
 
3
One can find comprehensive information about this and many other ciphers used in the past in [54]. The history of contemporary cryptography is well discussed in [29]. See also Sect. 7.3 in [68].
 
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Metadata
Title
Basic Concepts and Historical Overview
Authors
Czesław Kościelny
Mirosław Kurkowski
Marian Srebrny
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Modern Cryptography Primer

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-41385-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-41386-5

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41386-5_1

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