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Neural cryptography

Neural cryptography is like having secret messages with your friends that nobody else can read or understand.

Imagine you and your friend have a secret code. This code is made up of a set of numbers, letters or symbols that only you and your friend understand. When you want to send a message to your friend, you encode it using this secret code, and your friend uses the code to decode the message back into plain text.

Neural cryptography is a little bit like that, except that instead of using a code made up of numbers, letters or symbols, you and your friend use your brains to create the code.

The way it works is both you and your friend have a "neural network" in your brain. This neural network is basically a set of neurons that can communicate with each other.

You and your friend use this network to create a shared "key". This key is like a secret code that only you and your friend know. It is created by passing information between your neural networks in a way that nobody else can understand.

Once you have created this shared key, you can use it to encode and decode messages between you and your friend.

The really cool thing about neural cryptography is that it's very secure. Since the key is created by your brain, nobody else can know what it is unless they can look directly into your brain. This makes it a very powerful tool for secure communication.
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