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Encryption
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- Main article: Cryptography
Encryption is, in it's most basic sense, encoding a message so that an unauthorized individual can't access it, but an authorized individual can decode the message and make use of it.
Keywords include:
- Ciphertext
- Plaintext
- Encryption key
- Decryption key
- Public-key
- Private-key
