Cryptography: How does it work?
11 min readJul 29, 2018
It is the science and study of hiding any text so that only the intended recipients or authorized people can read it and that is any text even using things like invisible ink or the mechanical cryptography machines of the past.
In this article, we will explain the basics of cryptography and the benefits it offers, in simple terms, and advance further into the following topics:
The need for cryptography
- password storage
- secure authentication
- data transmissions