Cryptography

concept · 1900 BC · Ancient world

Encrypting messages.

Where it is used

• Colossus — is used in. It broke the Lorenz cipher.
• Enigma — is used in. A cipher machine.
• Turing’s Bombe — is used in. Cryptanalysis of Enigma.
• Cipher machine — is used in. Encryption.
• Cryptocurrency — is used in. Cryptocurrency rests on cryptography: signatures and hashes protect transfers.

What it is a kind of

• Public-key cryptography — includes. A branch of cryptography.
• AES cipher — includes. A cipher.
• Hash function — includes. Cryptographic hashes.

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