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What does encryption mean?

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Noun
  1. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords.
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Their director of wireless believes that end-to-end authentication could be a greater concern than end-to-end encryption.
Keylogging renders encryption moot, as it intercepts everything prior to encryption, as well as the keys used to decrypt things.
The encryption keys are sent over dedicated links, and the messages ciphered with those keys are transmitted over the Internet.
Some encryption machines protect telephone calls, others protect fax and Telex messages, and still others protect computer communications.
Take passwords for instance, which are encrypted using a one-way encryption system.
You can implement an encryption algorithm or screen scraping on top of the Web Service call.

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