Cryptography: What is it and What does it mean to you?

9/24/97


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Cryptography: What is it and What does it mean to you?

Basic Idea: Use a Secret to Transform the Real Message

To be useful, encryption must:

Private-key and public-key

More Keying: Public and Private

Data Encryption Standard (DES): A private-key system

Rivest Shamir Adelman (RSA) Public-Key Algorithm

Key Management

Cryptographic Protocols

Variety of Cryptographic Protocols designed

Implications

Politics

Where to find out more:

Author: Jonathan M. Smith

Email: jms@cis.upenn.edu

Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~jms