Glossary definition(s) for: encryption
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n., The conversion of data into a secret code (or of plaintext into ciphertext) for transmission over a public network.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary ]
Freedman, Alan. The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary. 8th ed. New York: American Management Association, 1998.
Dictionary definition(s) for: encryption
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n., The conversion of data into a secret code (or of plaintext into ciphertext) for transmission over a public network.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary ]
Freedman, Alan. The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary. 8th ed. New York: American Management Association, 1998.
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n., Any procedure used in cryptography to convert plaintext into ciphertext (encrypted message) in order to prevent any but the intended recipient from reading that data.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) ]
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n., The mechanism of coding data transmitted by various telecommunications systems so that only authorized users may have access to it.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book ]
Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book. 9th ed. Edited by Raymond John Prytherch. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 2000.
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n., The process of encoding plaintext into ciphertext so that it can be read only by those who know the cipher to unscramble the message.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
