| 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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| 暗号化 | Definition:
データ（平文）を、第三者には分かりにくい形のデータ（暗号文）に変換すること。暗号化の逆の操作は、復号化という。
データを暗号化するには、データを変換するための規則（アルゴリズム）と、鍵（キー）の2つを使う。通常、暗号化／復号化のためのアルゴリズムをデータの送信者と受信者の間で決めておき、さらにデータを暗号化／復号化するときに（毎回異なる）鍵となるデータを使ってデータを変換する。アルゴリズムと鍵の両方を使うことにより、たとえアルゴリズムが漏洩しても鍵の値が分からない限り、データを復号化することは困難となる。 |
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