History of Cryptography - Modern Cryptography

Modern Cryptography

Both cryptography and cryptanalysis have become far more mathematical since World War II. Even so, it has taken the wide availability of computers, and the Internet as a communications medium, to bring effective cryptography into common use by anyone other than national governments or similarly large enterprises.

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