Cryptography: Secure way to Share a Secret

Abstract

Cryptography is a method of storing and transmitting data in a particular form so that only those for whom it is intended can read and process it. Cryptography can also be understand as the way of scrambling data so that it looks like babble to anyone except those who knows the trick of decoding it. Many techniques are used for cryptography purpose such as microdots, merging words with images, and other ways to hide information in storage or transit. However, in today’s computer centric world, cryptography is most often associated with scrambling plaintext (ordinary text, sometimes referred to as cleartext) into ciphertext (a process called encryption), then back again (known as decryption).