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A definition or brief description of Cryptography.

A field at the intersection of mathematics and computer science that is concerned with the security of information, typically the confidentiality, integrity and authenticity of some message.

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	A field at the intersection of [[mathematics]] and [[computer science]], concerned with the [[security of information]], typically ~~contained in some message; standard goals of cryptographic systems are hiding~~ the ~~content of a message (~~[[confidentiality]]), ~~ensuring that the message has not been changed (~~[[integrity]]~~), or that the apparent sender~~ and ~~the real sender coincide (~~[[authenticity]]).		A field at the intersection of [[mathematics]] and [[computer science]] that is concerned with the [[security of information]], typically the [[confidentiality]], [[integrity]] and [[authenticity]] of some message.