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Definitions of data encryption:
- Encryption is a secure process for keeping your sensitive and confidential information private. It is a process by which bits of data are mathematically jumbled with a password-key. The Encryption process makes the data unreadable unless or until decrypted.
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- Converting plain text by the use of a key and a transformation technique into scrambled text, which protects the confidentiality of the information being transferred.
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- The scrambling of sensitive information, such as account numbers or access codes, to prevent unauthorized use. The Data Encryption Standard (DES), the encryption format adopted by the financial industry, requires that information scrambling take place in a computer or terminal before transmission.
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- The scrambling of information sent over the Internet. Only the intended users can read and understand encrypted information.
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- is encoding data so that they cannot be understood unless they are decoded; used to protect data from unauthorized users.
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- The changing of information into an unreadable form to prevent anyone who does not have a decryption "key" from reading the information. Data encryption is used to protect sensitive information that travels over public channels such as the Internet.
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- (computer science) the encryption of data for security purposes
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- Cryptography (from Greek kryptós, "hidden", and gráphein, "to write") is, traditionally, the study of means of converting information from its normal, comprehensible form into an incomprehensible format, rendering it unreadable without secret knowledge — the art of encryption. In the past, cryptography helped ensure secrecy in important communications, such as those of spies, military leaders, and diplomats. ...
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