encryption

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Noun

encryption (usually uncountable; plural encryptions)

1. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords.

Related terms

• encrypt
• decrypt
• cypher
• PKI
• public key
• PGP

Translations

process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords

Czech: šifrování (cs) n., zašifrování (cs) n. Esperanto: ĉifrado (eo) Finnish: salaus (fi) French: chiffrement (fr), cryptage (fr) m.

German: Verschlüsselung (de) f. Japanese: 暗号化 (ja) Persian: رمزگذاری (fa) (ramz-gozâri)