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The traditional topic of cryptography is encryption. Encryption schemes are used to keep messages or stored data secret. In this chapter, we introduce fundamental notions that we need to describe encryption schemes. As a first example, we present affine linear ciphers and their cryptanalysis.
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Buchmann, J.A. (2001). Encryption. In: Introduction to Cryptography. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0496-8_3
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