Cryptography for the Internet
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Contents
The Past:
The Start of Cryptography, and the Start of the Problems of Secrecy
Transposition
Substitution
The Vigenère Cypher
Enigma
The Present
The Present
Modern Cryptography
Symmetric Cyphers
DES
3DES
IDEA
3IDEA
Other Symmetric Cyphers
Asymmetric Cyphers
Diffie-Hellman
RSA
Other Asymmetric Cyphers
Modular Arithmetic
Factoring Into Prime Numbers
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
Who Should Use Cryptography?
The Future
Quantum Cryptography
Back to the town of Wurck
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