理解cryptographic primitive

• Cyrptographic primitive

  Cryptographic primitives are well-established, low-level cryptographic algorithms that are frequently used to build cryptographic protocols for computer security systems.

  These routines include, but are not limited to, one-way hash functions and encryption functions.

• Commonly used primitives

  • one-way hash function, sometimes also called as one-way compression function-compute a reduced hash value for a message.
  • Symmetric key cryptography - compute a ciphertext decodable with the same key used to encode
  • Public-key cryptography - compute a ciphertext decodable with a different key used to encode.
  • Digital signatures - confirm the author of a mesa