a Pictorial Guide to Cryptography

with Stories, Analogies and Meaningful Pictures

Since cryptography you need to know infrequently changes * . . .,
 learning how crypt protects your data & keys will likely serve you a lifetime.

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* Without doubt, cryptography's most important change was the discovery of public/private key technology in the 1970s (wiki history)
That discovery took 1,000s of years (no typo). Centuries old secret key crypto methods are used in today's computer cryptography.


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