1993-09-14 - Re: authoritative definition of cryptography?

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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
To: doug@netcom5.netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
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From: peter honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 93 13:09:02 PDT
To: doug@netcom5.netcom.com (Doug Merritt)
Subject: Re: authoritative definition of cryptography?
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according to denning's book, "cryptography is the science and study of 
secret writing."  webster's 7th says cryptography is "the enciphering 
and deciphering of messages in secret code."  kahn says "the methods of
cryptography ... render [a secret message] unintelligible to outsiders 
by various transformations of the plaintext."

	peter






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