encryption
About 2.11 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
- noun A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
Similar words
encoding decryption cryptography encipherment pki cryptographic coding encrypted encode cipher
Often followed by
and is standard key algorithm of keys algorithms scheme
Word family
encryptions
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