2.3-Encryption

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Symmetric encryption

An encryption method which uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt a message.e.g.shifting a message along the alphabet

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Asymmetric encryption

An encryption method which uses a public key to encrypt data and a private key to decrypt data.

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The name for unencrypted data

Plaintext

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The name for encrypted data

Ciphertext

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Encryption

The altering of data to make it unreadable for anyone who should not be able to access it