From root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Fri Aug 16 14:46:52 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id OAA12343; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:46:49 -0400 Received: from [192.48.96.17] by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15803; Fri, 16 Aug 96 14:41:26 EDT Received: from ngeout01.news.aol.com by relay7.UU.NET with SMTP (peer crosschecked as: ngeout01.news.aol.com [152.163.176.244]) id QQbdaw11073; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:41:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from newsbf02.news.aol.com (newsbf02.mail.aol.com [152.163.172.50]) by ngeout01.news.aol.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA03662 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:44:55 -0400 Received: by newsbf02.news.aol.com (1.38.193.5/16.2) id AA15264; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:41:19 -0400 Posted-Date: 16 Aug 1996 14:40:54 -0400 Received-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:41:19 -0400 To: news-answers@uunet.uu.net Path: newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail From: rsamaven@aol.com (RSAMaven) Newsgroups: news.answers Subject: RSA Laboratories FAQ 3.0 - Part 2 Date: 16 Aug 1996 14:40:54 -0400 Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) Lines: 559 Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-Id: <4v2fbm$ese@newsbf02.news.aol.com> Reply-To: rsamaven@aol.com (RSAMaven) ************************************************************************** *************** RSA Laboratories Frequently Asked Questions v3.0 - This is the latest FAQ available on Cryptography from RSA, please ignore all others. You can refer to the HTML version at : HTTP://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/newfaq/ or you can download the FAQ in Adobe Acrobat version from our website: HTTP://www.rsa.com/PUBS/ If you have any questions or comments, please email : rsamaven@aol.com webmaven@rsa.com faq-editor@rsa.com ************************************************************************** ************* Introduction Question 1. What is Cryptography? Cryptography, to most people, is concerned with keeping communications private. Indeed, the protection of sensitive communications has been the emphasis of cryptography throughout much of its history [Kah67]. As we will see, however, this is only one part of today s cryptography. Encryption is the transformation of data into some unreadable form. Its purpose is to ensure privacy by [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]