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# Monero cryptography overview
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Monero uses a wide variety of cryptographic primitives for various use cases.
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Comparing to altcoins, Monero cryptography is considered conservative, sound and robust.
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Comparing to Bitcoin, Monero uses much more primitives, and some of them are more advanced, especially those related to privacy and Proof of Work.
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Some choices are deliberately non-standard (for better or worse) - oftentimes a legacy of the CryptoNote protocol.
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