Williams College Department of Computer Science

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Technologies and Techniques


Traditional Cryptography

Slides in this section:
  • Encryption Basics
  • Cryptographic Notation
  • The Caesar Cipher
  • Key-based Encryption Schemes
  • Generalizing the Caesar Cipher
  • More Notation
  • Key Properties
  • Vigenere Cypher
  • Vigenere Cypher (cont.)
  • The Key Distribution Problem
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