Cryptology/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Communication [r]: The set of interactive processes that create shared meaning. ^[e]
• Computer network [r]: A collection of computers or digital devices ("nodes") connected by communication links. ^[e]
• Convergence of communications [r]: Technical specifications and infrastructure to allow all types of communications (e.g., telephone, web, television) to interface over a common set of information transfer technologies ^[e]
• Information theory [r]: Theory of the probability of transmission of messages with specified accuracy when the bits of information constituting the messages are subject, with certain probabilities, to transmission failure, distortion, and accidental additions. ^[e]
• Information security [r]: The set of policies and protective measures used to ensure appropriate confidentiality, integrity and availability to information; usually assumed to be information in a computer or telecommunications network but the principles extend to people and the physical world ^[e]
• Linguistics [r]: The scientific study of language. ^[e]
• Mathematics [r]: The study of quantities, structures, their relations, and changes thereof. ^[e]
• Statistics [r]: A branch of mathematics that specializes in enumeration, or counted, data and their relation to measured data. ^[e]
• Telecommunications [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

• Advanced Encryption System [r]: An encryption system, selected by the U.S. government after a public review process, that is a stronger replacement for the Data Encryption Standard ^[e]
• Cipher [r]: A means of combining plaintext (of letters or numbers, or bits), using an algorithm that mathematically manipulates the individual elements of plaintext, into ciphertext, a form unintelligible to any recipient that does not know both the algorithm and a randomizing factor called a cryptographic key ^[e]
• Code [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Cryptanalysis [r]: The sub-field of cryptology which deals with breaking into existing codes and ciphers. ^[e]
• Cryptography [r]: A field at the intersection of mathematics and computer science that is concerned with the security of information, typically the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of some message. ^[e]
• Cryptographic key [r]: Value used by a computer together with a complex algorithm to encrypt and decrypt messages. ^[e]
• Data Encryption Standard [r]: A block cipher specification issued by the U.S. government in 1976, intended for sensitive but unclassified data. It is now obsolescent, succeeded by the Advanced Encryption Standard, but still used in commercial systems. ^[e]
• Enigma machine [r]: The primary high-security cryptographic communications security machine of Nazi Germany. Unknown to the Germans, it had been substantially cryptanalyzed by the British Government Code and Cipher School, with French, Polish, and U.S. help. ^[e]
• William Friedman [r]: Possibly the greatest cryptologist in history, he pioneered the application of mathematics to cryptanalysis and built the U.S. Army Signal Intelligence Service technical base. ^[e]
• Auguste Kerckhoff [r]: Add brief definition or description
• PURPLE machine [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Alan Turing [r]: British mathematician, code breaker and computer pioneer. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Communications intelligence [r]: The subset of SIGINT concerned with signals intended to be intelligible to human beings, in the form of voice, messages, or images. ^[e]
• Communications Security Establishment [r]: Add brief definition or description
• FAPSI [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Government Communications Headquarters [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Government Communications Security Bureau [r]: Add brief definition or description
• National Security Agency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Radiofrequency MASINT [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Random number [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Signals intelligence [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Claude Shannon [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Sir Francis Walsingham [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Wiretapping [r]: Add brief definition or description