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Secure mail

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Match each cryptographic concept with its closest analogue in the traditional postal system. Each concept has exactly one match, but some numbered items will not be used.

Cryptographic concepts:

Postal analogues:

  1. Name and address displayed on a mailbox
  2. Postage stamp
  3. Checking the authenticity of a wax seal
  4. Placing a letter inside an opaque envelope and sealing it
  5. Wax seal on an envelope
  6. Handwritten signature inside a letter
  7. Letter before it is placed in an envelope
  8. Sealed envelope containing a letter
  9. Postal authority that verifies the identity of mailbox owners
  10. Publicly accessible slot of a locked mailbox
  11. Key that opens the mailbox

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