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Cryptography was originally employed to protect communication of private information between individuals. Today, it consists of mathematical techniques that provide secrecy in the transmission of messages between computers, and its objective is to solve security problems such as privacy and authentication over a communications channel.
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Turing made fundamental contributions to computing, including the theoretical Turing machine.
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This requirement is to ensure that the matrix A is invertible.
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The NBS is now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Cryptography. In: Mathematics in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4534-9_8
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