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Mathematics

Of or pertaining to the study of the measurement, properties, and relationships of quantities and sets, using numbers and symbols.

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digital signature standard

Computer science; Cryptography

Digital Signature Standard (DSS) is the digital signature algorithm (DSA) developed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) to generate a digital signature for the ...

cryptographic message syntax

Computer science; Cryptography

Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) is a standard for protecting messages cryptographically. CMS is architected around certificate based key management and symmetric cryptography.

elliptic curve cryptography

Computer science; Cryptography

Elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) is a public key encryption technique based on elliptic curve theory that can be used to create faster, smaller, and more efficient ...

rsa

Computer science; Cryptography

RSA is an Internet encryption and authentication system that uses an algorithm developed in 1977 by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman. The RSA algorithm is the most ...

decryption

Computer science; Cryptography

Decryption is the process of converting encrypted data back into its original form, so it can be understood.

advanced encryption standard

Computer science; Cryptography

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption algorithm for securing sensitive but unclassified material by U.S. Government agencies and, as a likely consequence, may ...

block cipher

Computer science; Cryptography

A block cipher is a method of encrypting text (to produce ciphertext) in which a cryptographic key and algorithm are applied to a block of data (for example, 64 contiguous bits) ...