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Broadly speaking, the term cryptography refers to a wide range of security issues in the transmission and safeguarding of information. Most of the applications of algebra and number theory have arisen since 1976 as a result of the development of public key cryptography.
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Koblitz, N. (1998). Cryptography. In: Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography. Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03642-6_1
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