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-$title = "Principles of Crytography for Data Security";
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-<p>As the amount of life spent online continues to increase, a great deal of private information is naturally
-    being transmitted: banking details, medical records, business correspondences. Where once these exchanges of
-    data would have occured between a small set of individuals in a shared space, they now happen between
-    continents, through hundreds of servers and over complex network infrastructures. It is a system that cannot
-    be fully accounted for by any individual, and so the means of transmission are insecure--much like having a
-    letter transmitted by a series of couriers, the data is liable to be intercepted or modified. And so both
-    parties in the exchange take on a risk that may prohibit especially critical data from being sent.
-    Cryptography is the study of data obfuscation--a means of making a message readable only by some. It is the
-    answer to the question "when the means of transmission cannot be trusted, how can information be conveyed
-    securely?</p>
-<p>There are two classes of encryption: symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric encryption allows a message to be
-    encoded and decoded with the same piece of information, or key. The ancient Caesar cipher is an example of
-    this; an arbitrary number acting as the key was agreed upon by both parties, and every letter in the message
-    was shifted through the alphabet by that amount. It could easily be decoded by anyone who knew the key by
-    simply shifting the letters backward through the alphabet. Simple algorithms such as the Caesar cipher are
-    vulnerable to various attacks due to the patterns that they create in the ciphertext. A given letter may
-    always be encoded in the same way, meaning that the key could be compromised if the attacker gained access
-    to the plaintext and ciphertext forms of the same message. And a message could be decrypted without the key
-    by recognizing repeated patterns in the ciphertext representing common words. More advanced symmetric
-    encryption methods--like the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm, developed for the US National
-    Institute of Standards and Technologies--disrupt patterns in the message to prevent these types of attacks.
-</p>
-<p>Symmetric encryption is an imperfect solution in the internet age. Because it requires both parties to know
-    the same secret key, those parties must have a secure form of communication already established. In the days
-    of Caesar, this key exchange could be performed confidentially by two individuals in close proximity. When
-    encryption is used on the internet, it cannot be assumed that the communicating parties will have had any
-    physical interactions--and it would be impractical to expect every new customer of an online banking service
-    to perform a physical key exchange. Asymmetric encryption solves this problem by removing the key exchange.
-    Instead of encrypting and decrypting a message with the same key, an asymmetric encryption algorithm has a
-    keypair, comprising a public key, used for encrypting a message, and a private key, used for decrypting a
-    message. The keys are so named because the private key is never shared, while the public key can be
-    broadcast widely. </p>
-<p>Typically, it demands more processing power to encrypt and decrypt messages with an asymmetric encryption
-    implementation than a comparable symmetric one. For this reason, it is desirable to use symmetric encryption
-    for most communications. An asymmetric implementation such as the Rivest--Shamir--Adleman (RSA) system is
-    used to perform the key exchange. One of the devices will broadcast its public RSA key to the other, which
-    will respond by generating an AES key, encrypting it with that RSA key, and returning it. This method of key
-    exchange is secure, even if every network packet is intercepted. Once the devices share an AES key, they can
-    communicate with the more efficient symmetric encryption method.</p>
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