The AGA Cryptography Working Group was subsequently formed to examine how encryption could be used to help protect SCADA systems from attack.

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Browser-based cryptography also means that anyone who breaks the SSL encryption that protects the data sent by the server could tamper with the code just as easily.

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Cryptography has been around for centuries, but until recently all the practical encryption systems people knew about were symmetrical.

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