1982 · 857 citations · 10 references
ComputingComputer ScienceComputer SecurityCryptographyProbability TheoryCryptographic AlgorithmsCryptographic ProtocolsData ConfidentialityData EncryptionInformation-theoretic SecurityPrivacy-preserving ProtocolsEncryptionEncryption Scheme SecurityPerfect Secrecy
This paper proposes an Encryption Scheme that possess the following property : An adversary, who knows the encryption algorithm and is given the cyphertext, cannot obtain any information about the clear-text.
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New directions in cryptography
Whitfield Diffie, Martin E. Hellman · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1976 · 14.4K citations