h2>Encryption terms</h2>
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<p>Plaintext – A message or data, such as a file, that is in a human readable form or in form that any program can read without requiring decryption of that file. It could be a simple text document written on a notepad, word document, word pad document or any textual file document. Such a file can be read by anyone without decrypting. Those unsecured typed of data are called plaintext.</p>
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<p>Ciphertext – An opposite of plaintext. It is an encrypted message or data, scrambled into unreadable form.</p>
<p>Encryption – A process where you scramble a message, or any other kind of information so it can not be read by anyone who does not have the right key for decrypting it.</p>
<p>Decryption – An opposite of encryption, converting (unscrambling) files or documents from an encrypted form (ciphertext) to an unencrypted form (plaintext).</p>
<p>Cryptology – Science that covers both cryptography and cryptanalysis.</p>
<p>Cryptography – Science of hiding information, or developing encryption methods, systems and technologies.</p>
<p>Cryptanalysis – Study of breaking encryption methods or systems, breaking or cracking the codes and trying to break the encrypted message back into it readable form.</p>
<p>Algorithm – A mathematical formula, or method used to scramble the bits of a message (the binary data, 1′s and 0′s) from its original form into ciphertext (encrypted data).</p>
<p>Key – Secret piece of information, such as password, identification number, digital certificate etc used in conjunction with algorithm to encrypt data or file. To encrypt a file you need an algorithm and a key, to decrypt a data you also need an algorithm and a key. The key may, or may not be the same for file encryption.</p>
<p>Symmetric key encryption (also called private or shared) – A method where there is only one single key, shared between two parties that want to exchange encrypted files.</p>
<p>Asymmetric key encryption (also called public) – A method where there are two keys used to encrypt and decrypt messages or files.</p>
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