Transmitting messages across noisy channels is an important practical problem. Coding theory provides explicit ways of ensuring that messages remain legible even in the presence of errors. Cryptography on the other hand, makes sure that messages remain unreadable - except to the intended recipient. These complementary techniques turn out to have much in common mathematically.
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