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encryption

Encoding a message so that it can only be read by the intended recipient. The mathematical calculation of encryption formulae is called cryptography.



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For Cryptanalysts Only The transmitting agency uses a different mode of encipherment for each of its receiver, and that's one hock of a weakness, for on the same day, at approximately the same time, your agents in Erewhon, Ecalpon, and Wohon, have intercepted three different cipher-texts, which you suspect (correctly) all overlie the same short plain-text message.
In May 2006 a cryptanalyst/forensic examiner from the CRRU explained the complex encipherment process to a federal jury in Southern California.
Russian Dimitry Sklyarov wrote a program to crack Adobe's eBook encipherment, allowing users to move eBooks from one machine to another, and enabling blind consumers to hear the books read out loud.
 
 
 
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