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Article: Cryptology and Number Theory
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- World of Forensic Science
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Cryptology and Number Theory
Forensic analyses can be concerned with unraveling the true meaning of deliberately convoluted communications.
Forensic accounting
can involve the search of seized financial and other paper and computer records. An examiner may encounter information that has been altered so as to be indecipherable. Understanding the nature of the informational alteration can permit descrambling strategies to be applied, rendering the information understandable.
Cryptography is a division of applied mathematics concerned with developing schemes and formula to enhance the privacy of communications through the use of
codes
. More specifically, cryptography is the study of ...