Cryptography Explained: Unlock the Secrets of Secure Communication 🔐

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Cryptography Explained: Unlock the Secrets of Secure Communication 🔐
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891.5K views • Mar 28, 2012
Cryptography Explained: Unlock the Secrets of Secure Communication 🔐

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What is Cryptography? A story which takes us from Caesar to Claude Shannon.

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Computer Science on Khan Academy: Learn select topics from computer science - algorithms (how we solve common problems in computer science and measure the efficiency of our solutions), cryptography (how we protect secret information), and information theory (how we encode and compress information).

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