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Cryptography:-

Cryptography generally deals with the study and practice of techniques for ensuring secure
communication between two parties in the presence of a third party called adversaries.

Below image to visualize the encryption process

Let us understand cryptography with the help of an example. As we see in the above
figure sender wants to send a "hello" message and encryption is done on the sender to convert the
sender's message into an unreadable format (cipher text) using the encryption key.
The message of the sender also known as plain text is converted into an unreadable form by
using a key ‘k’, that unreadable resultant text is called cipher text. And this whole process is
known as encryption.
At the receiver side cipher text is received and that cipher text is again converted into plain text
using the decryption key.
Decryption is the reverse process of encryption. In decryption, at the receiver end cipher text is
converted into plain text using the key, so the receiver can understand it.
Now let us understand the terms secure communication and adversary one by one.
 Secure Communication generally refers to rules and regulations that ensure that the data
shared between two communicating parties can not be retrieved by the adversary.
 In cryptography, an adversary refers to a malicious entity, whose target is to access data
by threatening the protocols of cyber security.
 Cryptography deals with the creation and analysis of rules to prevent the third party from
retrieving private information shared between two parties.
The Main principles of cryptography are Confidentiality, Data Integrity, Authentication, Non-
repudiation
 Confidentiality refers to rules and regulations that make sure that the data is restricted to
certain people or certain places.
 Data integrity ensures that data remains accurate and consistent over its whole
transmission process.
 Authentication ensures that the data is being claimed by the person who is related to it.
 Non-repudiation ensures that a person or a party related to the transmission process
cannot deny the authenticity of their signature on the data or the transmission of a
message.
Network Security:-
Network Security generally refers to action taken by an enterprise or organization to protect and
secure its computer network and data. The main aim is to ensure the confidentiality and
accessibility of the network and data.
Below image to show the network security model:

The network security model represents the secure communication between sender and receiver.
This model depicts how the security service has been implemented over the network to prevent
the opponent from causing a threat to the authenticity or confidentiality of the data that is being
communicated through the network.
 Network security covers a huge amount of technologies, devices, and processes
 In simple words, it is a set of rules and regulations designed for protecting and securing the integrity, confidentiality,
and accessibility of data and computer networks.
 The most common example of network security is password protection which was chosen by itself.

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