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In this short chapter, we talk a bit about cryptography. First, we discuss some classical sorts of private key methods, and their limitations in the modern world. We then look at the first public key cryptographic method.
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Lee, G.T. (2018). Public Key Cryptography. In: Abstract Algebra. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77649-1_13
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