Beyond just specialist software developers, beyond just coders, even the non-programming general public can benefit from understanding how cryptography ... For instance, a simple cipher would ...

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But even those schemes suffer from the same Achilles’ heel that plagues all such encryption systems ... Here’s a simple guide for you—and anyone who claims they have nothing to hide.