Computer Science · Security & Cryptography
Key Exchange & PKI
A topic within Security & Cryptography, itself one of 15 topics in that field and part of Computer Science.
Reading for Security & Cryptography
2Then
Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- EssayReflections on Trusting TrustKen Thompson, 1984· 3 pages
You cannot trust code you did not totally create yourself — a compiler can hide a backdoor that survives inspection of its own source.
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Primary sources and full treatments.
- PaperNew Directions in CryptographyWhitfield Diffie & Martin Hellman, 1976· 11 pages
Introduces public-key cryptography, making secure communication possible between parties who have never met.