This document discusses cryptography techniques including symmetric key cryptography, stream ciphers, the one-time pad cipher, RC4 stream cipher, and asymmetric key cryptography. Symmetric key cryptography uses the same key for encryption and decryption, while asymmetric key cryptography uses public and private key pairs. Specific techniques covered include DES, AES, RC4 stream cipher, one-time pad, and the RSA algorithm for asymmetric encryption.