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Glossary: Cryptography and PKI

End-to-end encryption (E2EE)

Also written: E2EE, end-to-end

Data is encrypted on the sender's device and decrypted only on the recipient's device, so no server in between, not even the provider's, can read it. Signal works this way.

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Related terms

Data in transitTLS (Transport Layer Security)