•Encryption is the
process of coding information using a mathematical-based program and a secret key to produce a
string of characters that
is unreadable.
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•The process of reversing encrypted text is called decryption. In order
to decrypt text, you need a key to “unlock” it.
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•Encrypted information is called cipher text.
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•Unencrypted information is called plain text.
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•The process of transforming data from a readable format
(plain text) to an unreadable
format (cipher text) is called cryptography.