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Glossary: Protecting Data

Encryption

Also written: encrypt, encrypted

Scrambling data with a secret key so only someone with the key can read it again. It is the method to choose when the right people must read the data again and everyone else must not.

Where the book teaches it

Related terms

KeyCiphertextPlaintextAES (Advanced Encryption Standard)Full disk encryptionTLS (Transport Layer Security)