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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms. This article looks at encryption, how it fits into cryptology, how cryptographic algorithms work, types, use cases, and more. The Importance of Encryption.