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Cryptography

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cryptography (noun). The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.

This community is for links about and discussion of cryptography specifically. For privacy technology more generally, use !privacy.

This community is explicitly not about cryptocurrency; see !crypto for that.

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In this six minute video, Robert Miles explains public/private key cryptography in layman's terms. As a non-expert in this field, I find Miles' explanation very accessible, and I've come back to this video to brush up on this concept several times since the first time I watched it. Enjoy!

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