Cryptography

Cryptography

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

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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 authentication of electronic ...

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.

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 cryptographickeys. ECC generates ...

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 commonly used encryption ...

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 eventually become the ...

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) at once as a group ...