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Public Key Private Key
1,879 wordsThe recent acceleration in the uptake of electronic commerce (e-commerce) over the Internet has focused the need for methods to be developed by which to securely transfer data over what amounts to a worldwide public network. The most commonly cited example of this requirement is the ability of customers to make electronic purchases from company Web sites using debit cards such as VISA cards. Public confidence in e-commerce has to be high for it to succeed and to continue to grow, whether via exi...
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Credit Card Number Secret Key
1,402 wordsInitially, the Internet was designed to be used by government and academic users, but now it is rapidly becoming commercialized. It has on-line "shops", even electronic "shopping malls." Customers, browsing at their computers, can view products, read descriptions, and sometimes even try samples. What they lack is the means to buy from their keyboard, on impulse. They could pay by credit card, transmitting the necessary data by modem; but intercepting messages on the Internet is trivially easy fo...
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Hard To Find Private And Public
3,162 wordsCryptography is the science of encoding a message into a form that is unreadable and making sure only the proper people are capable of decoding the message back into its original form. This is usually done by using an encryption algorithm and a decryption algorithm (these two are often the same) and very often a secret key. Some of the early cryptographic systems did not use a key but instead kept the algorithm itself secret. The message sender uses the encryption algorithm and the key to encode...
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Private Key Public Key
229 wordsBrad Plank 10 / 4 / 01 Senior Research Synopsis Encryption and Cryptography Have you ever wanted to send a message to someone while distorting it in some fashion so the only person who can UN-distort it is the person you send it to? This way, if a third party intercept this message, all they see is a bunch of gibberish. This process is known as encryption and decryption. I will show in my research the history of cryptology, the different types of encryption, public and private, and their respect...
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Credit Card Numbers Electronic Commerce
3,379 wordsElectronic commerce includes almost any exchange of electronic data related to a business operation. In this discussion, I will be focusing on the use of the Internet for business transactions. Companies that use the Internet as their major source of income have a big concern about electronic commerce security to keep them successful in their online business. Although the technology exists to prevent almost all types of aggression, the nature of the Internet makes accomplishment of security meas...
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Mona Lisa Clinton Administration
2,733 wordsstands for " Pretty PGP PGP stands for " Pretty Good Privacy. " It is an encryption program. What encryption does is hide information from people who do not know the " secret word" to reveal the information. Louis J. Freeh, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says the honest have nothing to hide, and only criminals would use encryption. The honest, goes the implication, have no need of encryption. Let us think about that, for just a minute. The honest ha...
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E Mail Messages Electronic Mail
2,632 wordsTo deal with hackers who break through office systems through the Internet it is important for information managers to understand their enemy well. If they have sound background knowledge about hackers, they might be prepared to deal with them in a much more effective method. Hackers are very educated often mostly university or high school students who try to break through systems for which they have no authorization. They deal poorly with people, have few friends and less relationships, but at ...
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