Recent Trends in Applied Cryptology

摘要

The science of secret communication namely cryptology is an important area of research. It has come up as a multidisciplinary subject including Mathematics, Electronics, Communication and Computer Science. With advancements in computers and communication technologies, many systems have turned digital. The need for protection of stored and transmitted information by corporate and government agencies has brought this subject into the public domain in addition to the traditional domains of military and government sectors. In the last three decades, the technical developments in this area have grown manifolds. In this paper we give an account of developments in this field including a brief history, some recent advances, certain important applications and a few future trends.