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Another reason for encoding material is for secrecy. The history of secret writing, including the scytale and the Caesar cipher, is described. More modern techniques include the Vigenère method and substitution ciphers. Modular arithmetic is defined, and the RSA scheme of cryptography is studied.
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Wallis, W.D. (2013). Cryptography. In: Mathematics in the Real World. Birkhäuser, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8529-2_11
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