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Definition
Discipline or techniques employed in protecting integrity or secrecy of electronic messages by converting them into unreadable (cipher text) form. Only the use of a secret key can convert the cipher text back into human readable (clear text) form. Cryptography software and/or hardware devices use mathematical formulas (algorithms) to change text from one form to another.
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cryptography is in the Data Management, Communications, & Networks, E-Commerce, Information Science & Technology and Internet & World Wide Web subjects.
cryptography appears in the definitions of the following terms: asymmetric key cryptography (AKC), asymmetric key encryption, symmetric key encryption, Kerberos, public key cryptography (PKC) and non secret encryption
cryptography appears in these other term: symmetric key cryptography (SKC)
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