2. How Encryption Works
The concept behind encryption is quite
simple - make the data unlegible for
everyone else except those specified. This is
done using cyrptography - the study of
sending 'messages' in a secret form so that
only those authorized to receive the
'message' be able to read it.
3. How Encryption Works
The easy part of encryption is applying a
mathematical function to the plaintext and
converting it to an ecrypted cipher. The harder part is
to ensure that the people who are supposed to
decipher this message can do so with ease, yet only
those authorised are able to decipher it. We of-course
also have to establish the legitimacy of the
mathematical function used to make sure that it is
sufficiently complex and mathmatically sound to give
us a high degree of safety.
4. How Encryption Works
Encryption is used for storing, hide and sending
passwords to make sure that no one can
understand them. Encryption is used as well
when data is sent between intranets on Very
Secure Private Networks (VSPNs). Encryption
is also used to conduct commerce on the Internet
to protect credit card information during
transmission.
5. How Encryption Works
When we use the Internet, we're not always just clicking
around and passively taking in information, such as reading
news articles or blog posts -- a great deal of our time online
involves sending others our own information. Ordering
something over the Internet, whether it's a book, a CD or
anything else from an online vendor, or signing up for an
online account, requires entering in a good deal of sensitive
personal information. A typical transaction might include
not only our names, e-mail addresses and physical address
and phone number, but also passwords and personal
identification numbers (PINs).
