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A pretty good explanation for laypeople, featuring:

* One Time Pad (OTP)

* symmetric ciphers

* asymmetric cryptography (minus signatures)

* homomorphic encryption (at least, the overall principle)

* side-channels attack

Giving more practical examples could have helped though (e.g. HTTPS, GPG, etc)



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