And cryptography involves scrambling information, converting what you a human can read into sort of nonsense that hopefully a bad guy cannot read.

密码包含不规则的信息，它把我们正常人能读懂的东西转化为,希望坏人读不懂的东西。

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Fast forward mid-semester when we talk about cryptography and scrambling information, we need the ability to express ourselves in words, not just numbers, and we have that already.

回想一下期中的时候，我们讨论过密码学,和一些不规则信息,我们需要话语来表达自己，而不是数字，其实我们已经有了。

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But in society today, and we'll talk a bit about security topics -- and such throughout the course, for cryptography -- for encrypting things like your credit card information and bank accounts -- you don't use 32 bits, you don't use 64 bits, you generally use 1024 bits, 4,048 bits.

但在当今的社会上，我们将讨论一点安全方面的知识,贯穿整个课程，密码学-,加密一些像信用卡信息,银行账号之类的东西--你不能用32位，你也不能用64位，你通常要使用1024位，4048位。

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