13-06-2012, 05:18 PM
Communications Cryptography
Abstract
In today's information age,communications play an important role which 1s
contributed to the growth of technologies. Electronic security is increasingly involved in making communications more prevalent. Therefore, a mechanism is needed to assure the security and privacy of information that is sent over the electronic communications media is in need. Whether the communications media is wired or wireless, both can be not protected from unauthorized reception orinterception of transmission. The, method of transforming the original information into the unreadable format is called encryption and decryption of information. The study of encryption and decryption is known as Cryptography. Cryptography or communication by using secret code was used by the Egyptians some 4000 years ago. However, the science of cryptography was initiated by Arabs since 600s.Cryptography becomes vital in the twentieth century where it played a crucial role in the World War I and 11.This paper focuses on the analysis of the two types of key cryptography exists, based on the availability ofthe key publicly: Private key Cryptography, and Public Key Cryptography. Both the sender and the recipient share a key that must be kept private. In the former case the sender and recipient share a private key between the two of them which must be distributed first before actual communications take place. This analysis shows how much complicated and difficult to do properly. The most famous example of this type of cryptography is the Data Encryption Standard (DES).In the Public Key Cryptography, each party has two sets of keys; one key is known to the public while theother is kept secret to the owner.