Information Theft
What is encryption?
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ØSafeguards against information theft
ØProcess of converting plaintext (readable data) into ciphertext (unreadable characters)
ØEncryption key (formula) often uses more than one method
ØTo read the data, the recipient must decrypt, or decipher, the data