| English term or phrase: encryption | Definition from Infoplease :
The process of transmitting scrambled data so that only authorized recipients can unscramble it. For instance, encryption is used to scramble credit card information when purchases are made over the Internet.
Example sentence(s): - Due to recent developments in software and hardware, some consumer-level encryption products are now so powerful that law enforcement officials say they can't crack them, even with massive supercomputers. Washington Post
- If you just want to deter prying eyes a substitution cipher using multiple substitutions and several different substitutions schemes offers a reasonable level of encryption for virtually no computational effort. TechWorld
- There are free on-the-fly disk encryption / on the fly file encryption (OTFE) software that transparently encrypts files on your disk drive (or partition), on demand encryption tools that allow you to encrypt single files for those one-off occasions when you need encryption public key encryption which is particularly useful for things like email (where the key you use to encrypt your data is different from the key used to decrypt the data), etc. thefreecountry.com
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| التشفير | Definition:
يُعرَّف التشفير بأنه عملية تحويل المعلومات إلى شيفرات غير مفهومة (تبدو غير ذات معنى) لمنع الأشخاص غير المُرخَّص لهم من الاطلاع على المعلومات أو فهمها، ولهذا تنطوي عملية التشفير على تحويل النصوص العادية إلى نصوص مُشفَّرَة. |
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peer agreement (net): +7