Glossary of Data Communications Terms

Courtesy Enterprise-Wide Computing, Inc.

Term: encryption
Definition: the translation of one character string into another by means of a cipher, translation table, or algorithm in order to render the information contained therein meaningless to anyone who does not possess the decoding mechanism. It is the reverse of decryption.

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