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Cryptography
The practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties.
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Encryption is the process of encoding information in such a way that third parties cannot read it but authorized parties can.
digital signature standard
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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 ...
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