Cryptography dates all the way back to the times of Julius Caesar. In its simplest terms, the science of Cryptography is merely the scrambling and the descrambling of written messages between two individual parties. These individual parties can also be referred to as the sender and the receiver. The former creates the text and scrambles it into an undecipherable state, and in turn, the latter receives the text and unscrambles into a decipherable format.
A very simple example is “I LOVE YOU.” The sending party would scramble this message by rearranging the letters as “UYO I VEOL.” This message would then stay in this scrambled format while it is in transit, until it is received by the receiving party. They would then descramble it, so it would read once again “I LOVE YOU.” So, if this message were to have been captured by a malicious third party, the content would be rendered as useless and totally undecipherable. ...read more!
