Introduction :
There is an obvious need to communicate or to keep certain information unknown to the public or to anyone except those, who are intended to know that information. Cryptography is the process of achieving this result. Basically, Cryptography is the art and science of keeping messages secure. When we say
messages we could be referring to plain text files as well as any other types of files such
as executable files. Basically, the point of cryptography is to allow any user to keep his
data secure and not readable from not desired individuals. In this paper we discuss about Cryptography, types of Cryptography, importance of Cryptography and an application of it.
What is Cryptography?
Cryptography is the art of changing the form of the original information (the plain text) so that it becomes unintelligible for anybody except for those, who are intended to understand it. This process is called encoding. The result of the encoding is the cipher text. The process of......
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