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History of Cryptography
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Encryption and related technologies are widely and frequently used as a means of ensuring that information is secure, and their importance has been growing with the increasingly wide- spread utilization of the Internet.
The use of encryption can be traced to as far back as about 3000 B.C., during the Babylonian Era. Encryption technologies evolved as they were used in military and political settings, but as a result of the recent widespread use of the Internet and the dramatic increase in the amount of information people come into contact in their daily lives, the settings in which encryption technologies are applied and implemented have increased, and they are now used all around us in our daily lives.
The history of encryption is the history of “the contest of wits” be- tween encryption developers and encryption code breakers. Each time a new encryption algorithm is created, it has been decrypted, and that in turn has led to the creation of a new encryption algo- rithm, and cycles of algorithm creation and decryption have been repeated to this day.
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Information Technology
English
2013
1-14
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