In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming (more specifically, encoding) information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can...
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Public-key cryptography (redirect from Asymmetric key encryption algorithm)
be openly distributed without compromising security. In a public-key encryption system, anyone with a public key can encrypt a message, yielding a ciphertext...
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Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption that allows computations to be performed on encrypted data without first having to decrypt it. The resulting...
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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈrɛindaːl]), is a specification for the encryption of electronic...
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Link encryption is an approach to communications security that encrypts and decrypts all network traffic at each network routing point (e.g. network switch...
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Symmetric-key algorithm (redirect from Symmetric encryption)
algorithms for cryptography that use the same cryptographic keys for both the encryption of plaintext and the decryption of ciphertext. The keys may be identical...
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End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a private communication system in which only communicating users can participate. As such, no one else, including the communication...
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Authenticated Encryption (AE) is an encryption scheme which simultaneously assures the data confidentiality (also known as privacy: the encrypted message...
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In cryptography and steganography, plausibly deniable encryption describes encryption techniques where the existence of an encrypted file or message is...
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Disk encryption is a technology which protects information by converting it into code that cannot be deciphered easily by unauthorized people or processes...
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cryptography, null encryption (or selecting null cipher or NONE cipher) is choosing not to use encryption in a system where various encryption options are offered...
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Transport Layer Security (redirect from Transport layer encryption)
authenticated encryption ciphers, used mainly for Galois/Counter Mode (GCM) and CCM mode of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. TLS Extensions...
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BitLocker (redirect from Bitlocker Drive Encryption)
volume encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows versions starting with Windows Vista. It is designed to protect data by providing encryption for...
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Block cipher mode of operation (redirect from Encryption mode)
itself is only suitable for the secure cryptographic transformation (encryption or decryption) of one fixed-length group of bits called a block. A mode...
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Cryptography prior to the modern age was effectively synonymous with encryption, converting readable information (plaintext) to unintelligible nonsense...
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Pretty Good Privacy (redirect from Pgp encryption)
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing...
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In cryptography, the ElGamal encryption system is an asymmetric key encryption algorithm for public-key cryptography which is based on the Diffie–Hellman...
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RSA (cryptosystem) (redirect from RSA encryption)
That system was declassified in 1997. In a public-key cryptosystem, the encryption key is public and distinct from the decryption key, which is kept secret...
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A deterministic encryption scheme (as opposed to a probabilistic encryption scheme) is a cryptosystem which always produces the same ciphertext for a...
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The Data Encryption Standard (DES /ˌdiːˌiːˈɛs, dɛz/) is a symmetric-key algorithm for the encryption of digital data. Although its short key length of...
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as cascade encryption, cascade ciphering, multiple encryption, and superencipherment. Superencryption refers to the outer-level encryption of a multiple...
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Caesar cipher (redirect from Caesar encryption)
Caesar's code, or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in...
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Dynamic Encryption is a cryptographic principle that enables two parties to change the encryption algorithm for every transaction. The principle of Dynamic...
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Probabilistic encryption is the use of randomness in an encryption algorithm, so that when encrypting the same message several times it will, in general...
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Encryption software is software that uses cryptography to prevent unauthorized access to digital information. Cryptography is used to protect digital information...
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Structured encryption (STE) is a form of encryption that encrypts a data structure so that it can be privately queried. Structured encryption can be used...
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Email encryption is encryption of email messages to protect the content from being read by entities other than the intended recipients. Email encryption may...
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Database encryption can generally be defined as a process that uses an algorithm to transform data stored in a database into "cipher text" that is incomprehensible...
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Triple DES (redirect from Triple Data Encryption Standard)
In cryptography, Triple DES (3DES or TDES), officially the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA or Triple DEA), is a symmetric-key block cipher, which...
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Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage medium is a sector-addressable device (e.g., a hard disk). This article presents...
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