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CRYPTOGRAPHY

Introduction
Encryption
The art (or science) of putting messages into a

code, and the study of those coding techniques.

Decryption
The means by which to bring out the meaning

from a coded message.

Simple Techniques
Original text testing
Reversing text
gnitset

Shifting text
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Flipping text
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Caeser cipher
Multi-shift (this one is by 2) vguvkpi

Examples

Cryptography
Public Key Encryption
You create a private key/public key pair If a message is encrypted with your private key, only your public key will decrypt it Publish your public key on web sites or send it to people via e-mail Uses If you want to send a private message to another person, encrypt it with their public key (only they can decrypt it with their private key) Digital Signatures
Encrypt with your private key first and then their public key

PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) One version of this technology

Example

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