Encryption

The “Encryption” category contains cipher-related terms including the description of different types of data encryption and general considerations about data security.

• AES
  “AES, Short for Advanced Encryption Standard, is a symmetric 128-bit block data encryption technique developed by Belgian cryptographers Joan Daemen...”
  

• Cipher
  “Cipher is the generic term used to describe a means of encrypting data. In addition, the term cipher can refer to the encrypted text itself...”
  

• Cryptography
  “The subject of cryptography is primarily concerned with maintaining the privacy of communications, and modern methods use a number of techniques to...”
  

• Decryption
  “Decryption is a process of decoding encrypted data back to its original form using the same encryption method and most likely the same application...”
  

• DES
  “DES, Short for Data Encryption Standard, a popular symmetric-key encryption method developed in 1975 and standardized by ANSI in 1981 as ANSI X.3.92...”
  

• Public-key encryption
  “Public-key encryption is a special encryption method, employing two passwords instead of one. One is password is given out to public - it is used to...”