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3.3.1 What is cryptography?

According to a dictionary it is ``The art or process of writing in or deciphering secret code.'' In terms of the topic at hand, it is the transforming of information into a form unreadable by anyone without a secret decryption key.



Denis Arnaud
12/19/1997