Cryptography I knew very little about Cryptography when I began this assignment. What I did know came from my dealings with it in my hobbies. I knew it was a way to secure information that the information is not seen by the wrong eyes. By encoding information, society can take part in things such as electronic financial transactions, Online Purchasing, and electronic communication. I knew Many Operating systems used encryption such as M-4, R.S.A., and Triple D.E.S. to keep passwords and user informa¬ tion secure on the machine. I also knew that the most widely used was Data Encryption Standard or D.E.S. and it had just been cracked the summer be¬ fore by a man who built the 200,000 dollar machine it took to crack the code. He also had won a 20,000 Dollar reward for doing it. It was not the reward he did it for but to show people that it was not ....

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