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The activity of converting from plain text into code
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encryption
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Encryption is an album by the band Pro-jekt . It was released in 2002 by Nightbreed Records .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
encryption \encryption\ n. the process of converting messages in ordinary language, or other information into a secret coded form that cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for interpretation, called the key. Note: Encryption is used commonly ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context cryptography English) 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...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the activity of converting from plain text into code [syn: encoding ]
Usage examples of encryption.
The encryption system is based on the nonrational mathematics which obtain within the interior of a black-hole event horizon.
Makes you overdependent on encryption, for one thing, and on the goodwill of the server owners, for another.
SATCOM radio, the KY-57 encryption device, the folding umbrellalike antenna, and one of the several bio sample kits.
Encryption algorithms were just mathematical formulas, recipes for scrambling text into code.
No commercial manufacturer had ever dreamed of creating an encryption chip because normal encryption algorithms eventually become obsolete.
Encryption algorithms werejust mathematical formulas, recipes for scrambling text into code.
Because brute-force computers broke codes by examining cleartext for identifiable word patterns, Harne proposed an encryption algorithm that, in addition to encrypting, shifted decrypted cleartext over a time variant.
Information Systems Security, the encryption within the STE is so powerful that, given projected foreign codebreaking capabilities, it will remain fully secure for at least fifty years.
He took their ultrasophisticated digital encryption algorithms, with complementary hardware and software, to the master communicators at the Pentagon, the Defense Communications Agency, the National Security Agency, and the White House Communications Agency.
And, as Komulakov had planned, the GPS transponder in the little encryption device provided the exact location of the QRF every time Coombs communicated.
Soviet Union created a need for exotic languages, the proliferation of low-cost, complex encryption systems and fast computers has forced NSA to search for more mathematicians whom they can convert to codebreakers.
The technicians began to unload the equipment and carry the components into the suite: computer terminals, a secure fax machine, encryption equipment, secure phones, and radio repeaters.
Not for the first time, Lissa wished quantum encryption had been made to work for transluminal communication.
His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the "hackability" of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else's computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would "sniff out" - find - user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone's computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect "launder" e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn't trace Gillette).
His weaponry included the famous SATAN program (the Security Administer Tool for Analyzing Networks, used by both sysadmins and hackers to check the “hackability” of computer networks), several breaking and entering programs that would let him grab root access on various types of machines and networks, a custom-made Web browser and newsreader, a cloaking program to hide his presence while he was in someone else’s computer and which would delete traces of his activities when he logged off, sniffer programs that would “sniff out” – find – user-names, passwords and other helpful information on the Net or in someone’s computer, a communications program to send that data back to him, encryption programs and lists of hacker Web sites and anonymizer sites (commercial services that would in effect “launder” e-mails and messages so that the recipient couldn’t trace Gillette).