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  2. Kerckhoffs's principle - Wikipedia

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    Open Discussion Encourages Better Security The long history of cryptography and cryptoanalysis has shown time and time again that open discussion and analysis of algorithms exposes weaknesses not thought of by the original authors, and thereby leads to better and more secure algorithms.

  3. Outline of cryptography - Wikipedia

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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to cryptography: Cryptography (or cryptology) – practice and study of hiding information. Modern cryptography intersects the disciplines of mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Applications of cryptography include ATM cards, computer passwords, and electronic ...

  4. Cryptography - Wikipedia

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    The security of elliptic curve cryptography is based on number theoretic problems involving elliptic curves. Because of the difficulty of the underlying problems, most public-key algorithms involve operations such as modular multiplication and exponentiation, which are much more computationally expensive than the techniques used in most block ...

  5. Confusion and diffusion - Wikipedia

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    In cryptography, confusion and diffusion are two properties of a secure cipher identified by Claude Shannon in his 1945 classified report A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography. [1] These properties, when present, work together to thwart the application of statistics, and other methods of cryptanalysis.

  6. Security of cryptographic hash functions - Wikipedia

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    The security proof of the collision resistance was based on weakened assumptionsm, and eventually a second pre-image attack was found. FSB — Fast Syndrome-Based hash function —it can be proven that breaking FSB is at least as difficult as solving regular syndrome decoding , which is known to be NP-complete.

  7. Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm - Wikipedia

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    As with elliptic-curve cryptography in general, the bit size of the private key believed to be needed for ECDSA is about twice the size of the security level, in bits. [1] For example, at a security level of 80 bits—meaning an attacker requires a maximum of about 2 80 {\displaystyle 2^{80}} operations to find the private key—the size of an ...

  8. Encryption - Wikipedia

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    The question of balancing the need for national security with the right to privacy has been debated for years, since encryption has become critical in today's digital society. The modern encryption debate [42] started around the '90s when US government tried to ban cryptography because, according to them, it would threaten national security ...

  9. Cryptography law - Wikipedia

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    Cryptography is the practice and study of encrypting information, or in other words, securing information from unauthorized access. There are many different cryptography laws in different nations. Some countries prohibit the export of cryptography software and/or encryption algorithms or cryptoanalysis methods. Some countries require decryption ...