Cryptography

Cryptography

The practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties.

Industry: Mathematics; Computer science

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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, and is the ...

Cryptography is the practice and study of techniques for the construction of protocols which provide confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation in order to achieve secure ...

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 signing, verifying, ...

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 user, computer or ...

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 e-mail address.