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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-discrete-mathematical-sciences-and-cryptography</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0065</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0529</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JDMSC-2681</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Employing the L- spaces to study the interior operator and exterior operator</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Abdulqader</surname>
            <given-names>Zinah T.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, College of Education for Women, Tikrit University, Tikrit, Iraq</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      <fpage>2089</fpage>
      <lpage>2094</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>22</day>
        <month>05</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>In this work, we employ the L – space in order to study some notions such as L – interior operator and L – exterior operator. Many properties of these notions have been studied, and they are important theorems and propositions in topology. The applications of the present notions are in cryptography, particularly in schemes that leverage topological concepts to enhance security or to create new cryptographic primitives. </p>
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        <kwd>Cryptography</kwd>
        <kwd>Topology</kwd>
        <kwd>Algebra</kwd>
        <kwd>Interior operator</kwd>
        <kwd>Security</kwd>
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