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Computer science
The discipline that is concerned with methods and techniques relating to the design of computation and automatic data processing.
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decryption
Computer science; Cryptography
Decryption is the process of decoding a message that has been encrypted so that the information contained in the message can be read.
Secure Sockets Layer
Mathematics; General mathematics
The Secure Sockets Layer, abbreviated SSL, is a cryptographic protocol developed by Netscape that employs X.509 certificates to provide communication security over the internet, ...
cryptography
Computer science; Cryptography
Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for the construction of protocols which provide confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation in order ...
cryptographic algorithm
Computer science; Cryptography
A Cryptographic algorithm is an algorithm that employs the mathematics of computational hardness assumptions for the purposes of encrypting, decrypting, authenticating, digitally ...
encryption
Computer science; Cryptography
Encryption is the process of encoding information in such a way that third parties cannot read it but authorized parties can.
x.509 certificate
Computer science; Cryptography
An X.509 certificate is a digital certificate that uses the widely accepted international X.509 public key infrastructure (PKI) standard to verify that a public key belongs to the ...
identity-based encryption
Computer science; Cryptography
Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) is a special type of public key encryption where a public key can be any string that carries its own meaning to a user's identity, such as an ...
