#18unit 1technology solutions
Encryption
Transforming data to protect its confidentiality.
Unit 1Technology SolutionsTopic #18Published
Encryption
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Encryption is the process of transforming plain text or data into cipher text that cannot be read by anyone other than the sender and the receiver, using a key or cipher. It provides message integrity, nonrepudiation, authentication, and confidentiality.
- Define encryption using Laudon and Traver's definition.
- Identify the two main purposes of encryption.
- List the four e-commerce security dimensions encryption provides.
- Describe substitution and transposition ciphers.