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As our personal and commercial transactions are routinely transmitted around the world, the need to protect information has never been greater. One of the best single line descriptions of cryptography is due to Rivest [636]: Cryptography is about communication in the presence of an adversary.
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Knudsen, L.R., Robshaw, M.J.B. (2011). Introduction. In: The Block Cipher Companion. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17342-4_1
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