Definition of "encryption" []

• The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document... (noun)

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• "In fact I will use the term encryption, where quantum information is transformed in ways that an observer who lack the appropriate “key” is unable to cypher."
• "Another way to avoid data loss without using device or PC encryption is by using remote access technologies such as Citrix/Terminal Services."
• "The advantage of pen and paper is the built-in encryption, since nobody outside my closest relatives would be able to decrypt my handwriting ..."