Essay (Introduction)

"Cryptography is the science of transmitting information securely against potential third party adversaries."(Brown, 2020). It means cryptography is a method to prevent any theft of confidential data such as personal information. It can be used to secure the transmission of data between person and machine, for example, electronic chip in credit card.


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  1. Emil30 October 2020 at 09:23

    Your introduction is interesting and has its advantages, however it would be good to expand it a bit more.

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    1. Daniel30 October 2020 at 09:33

      Thanks for your feedback Emil. I wanted to expand my essay not only in introduction, but the limit is 550 words unfortunately. Now I have 545 or something around it, so it's impossible. But thanks, it will help me with next essays.

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