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. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加密 (cmn) (jiāmì)

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

• German: Verschlüsselung (de) f
• Greek: κρυπτογράφηση (el) (kryptográfisi)
• Japanese: 暗号化 (ja) (あんごうか, angōka)
• Persian: رمزگذاری (fa) (ramz-gozâri)
• Portuguese: criptografia (pt)
• Russian: шифрование (ru) (šifrovánije) n, шифровка (ru) (šifróvka) f