Electronic publishing: An overview of theoretical and practical knowledge and issues related to electronic publishing, with a special emphasis is on the development of electronic publishing, a comparative analysis of electronically printed publishing, comparative advantages and disadvantages of electronic publishing. Review of realized electronic publishing projects. Outlining, designing, creating and distributing electronic publications. The advantages and disadvantages with which they appear when publishing electronic publications. Procedure for organization and management by publishing electronic publications. Description elements, data processing modality, data protection procedures, methods and methods of authenticating, electronic document exchange formats (XML, etc.). Cryptography: The notion and purpose of cryptography. Introduction to theoretical foundations of cryptography, cryptographic methods, techniques and algorithms. System of public and secret keys in cryptography. Infrastructure for working with public keys. Key management. Digital certificates. Digital signature and qualified electronic signature. Application of cryptography in the protection of electronic documents. Application of acquired knowledge in the field of: e-business, document management systems (documents and electronic documents, legal framework for the use of electronic documents, archiving of electronic documents, document management, document management systems), e-learning.