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Pros and Cons of Asymmetric Cryptography

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Quick disclaimer: I love cryptography. I don’t fully understand the math that goes into it, but I love it all the same.

Something that has baffled me for quite some time is why we don’t see more cryptography in consumer computing. Passwords, simple authentication tokens, are ubiquitous, even on single-user Windows computers. Real encryption, on the other hand, in virtually non-existant.

Why?

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Written by Nick

July 15th, 2009 at 10:01 pm