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Cryptology is the science of encrypting and decrypting information and the methods employed to those ends. Cryptography (from the Greek “kryptós,” meaning secret or hidden, and “gráphein,” meaning writing) is a subset of cryptology that describes the creation of methods for encrypting information so it cannot be understood by unauthorized parties. Steganography refers to methods for disguising the communication channel over which cryptographically encrypted messages are sent.
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Hellwig, D., Karlic, G., Huchzermeier, A. (2020). Blockchain Cryptography: Part 1. In: Build Your Own Blockchain. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40142-9_6
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