{"id":80811,"date":"2018-07-21T10:43:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/how-cryptography-enables-online-shopping-cloud-tech-and-the-blockchain"},"modified":"2018-07-21T10:43:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T17:43:04","slug":"how-cryptography-enables-online-shopping-cloud-tech-and-the-blockchain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/how-cryptography-enables-online-shopping-cloud-tech-and-the-blockchain","title":{"rendered":"How cryptography enables online shopping, cloud tech, and the blockchain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASfAPOiq_eQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What do the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gallic_Wars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gallic Wars<\/a> and online shopping have in common? The answer, believe it or not, is cryptography. Cryptography is the cement of the digital world, but it also has a long history that predates the digital era.<\/p>\n<p>Most people do not realize that cryptography is a foundational element to our modern society. At it\u2019s heart cryptography is about access to data, and controlling who can see and use it.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get your hopes up.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/contributors\/2018\/07\/21\/cryptography-online-shopping-cloud-tech-blockchain-bitcoin-cryptocurrency\/\">https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/contributors\/2018\/07\/21\/cryptography-...ocurrency\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do the Gallic Wars and online shopping have in common? The answer, believe it or not, is cryptography. Cryptography is the cement of the digital world, but it also has a long history that predates the digital era. Most people do not realize that cryptography is a foundational element to our modern society. At [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}