Cryptography has Greek origins. It is a combination of two Greek words, “krupto and graph”, which means secrets and writing respectively. It is a technology which converts stream of texts into coded form in such a way that only the originator and receiver of the coded text can decode the text. Cryptography plays a very important role in internet based commercial activities as many secret documents which include payment details, money transfer and other confidential information are to be transferred from one computer to another.
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Originally posted 2008-06-30 00:01:04.