Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: link encryption
Definition: application of online crypto-operations to a communications system link so that all information passing over the link is encrypted completely. The term also refers to end-to-end encryption within each link in a communications network.

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