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Ginu Saju
– PG Student, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady, Ernakulam District, Kerala
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Deepika M. P.
– PG Student, Adi Shankara Institute of Engineering and Technology, Kalady, Ernakulam District, Kerala
Abstract
Cryptography technique is used to hide or represent information so nobody but authorized parties can decode it. DNA cryptography drawn attention after DNA computing was first proposed by Adleman in 1994, and now it has become the frontier of cryptography. DNA cryptography is a new born cryptographic field, in which DNA is used as information carrier. In this paper, we briefly introduce the biological background of DNA cryptography and techniques of DNA cryptography.
Keywords Cryptography, DNA cryptography, Nucleotides, Oligonucleotides, RNA.