Sinister code-breakers, beware

Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 07:30 in Health & Medicine

In the early– to mid-​​20th cen­tury, gov­ern­ments com­monly used cryp­tog­raphy to encrypt top-​​secret mes­sages or mil­i­tary com­mu­ni­ca­tions. But now that the com­puter and Internet age has evolved to a point where smart­phones and tablets are readily avail­able at our fin­ger­tips, its use has become much more wide­spread to meet the chal­lenges of the 21st cen­tury, according to Daniel Wichs, a newly appointed assis­tant pro­fessor in the Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Sci­ence.

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