Re: Best definition of cryptography

From: David Wagner (daw_at_taverner.cs.berkeley.edu)
Date: 04/29/04


Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:03:53 +0000 (UTC)

Anton Stiglic wrote:
>"The science of providing secure communication over insecure
> channels".

That's seems like a nice definition to me. Rivest has also proposed a
wording something like "the science of communication in the presence of
an adversary", which I also like.



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