Modern Cryptography
Both cryptography and cryptanalysis have become far more mathematical since World War II. Even so, it has taken the wide availability of computers, and the Internet as a communications medium, to bring effective cryptography into common use by anyone other than national governments or similarly large enterprises.
Read more about this topic: History Of Cryptography
Famous quotes containing the word modern:
“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)