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Cryptography enables the protection of security assets through the transformation of clear text to unreadable form. In this Security School webcast with expert Shon Harris, learn how cryptography, its components, methods and uses, are used to store and transmit messages safely.

Cryptography -- the transformation of clear text method to unreadable form -- is the method we use to store and transmit messages safely, so that only the intended recipient can read them. This Domain Spotlight provides an overview of the history of cryptography and the many complex, imaginative approaches that are used to accomplish this task. The following topics are covered:

• Cryptography background: evolution, historical uses, current industry status
• Cryptography components: components and their relationships
• Cryptography methods and uses: keys, algorithms, symmetric versus asymmetric approaches, PKI concepts and mechanisms, hashing and uses.