Cryptology
Türkçe: Kriptoloji
The science of designing encryption methods (cryptography) and of trying to break them (cryptanalysis).
// EXPLANATION
Modern cryptology rests on mathematics: an algorithm's security comes from a problem being computationally infeasible. The algorithm is not kept secret, only the key is (Kerckhoffs's principle).
// ALSO KNOWN AS
cryptologycryptography
// RELATED TERMS
EncryptionA mathematical transformation that makes data unreadable without the correct key.
AESThe most widely used symmetric block cipher standard in the world; it works with 128-bit blocks and 128/192/256-bit keys.
RSAAn asymmetric encryption algorithm based on the difficulty of factoring large numbers, used for key exchange and digital signatures.
