Common Security Technology
Modern software architectures make use of several technologies for supporting system security. This section is a quick summary of the key technologies that are used and how then can help support the different aspects of secure systems.
Symmetric Encryption
Data encryption means converting the data so that it can only be decrypted and read by authorized users. Data encryption requires an algorithm that is applied to the data to encrypt it.
Symmetric encryption is so called because it uses the same key to both encrypt and decrypt the data.
One of the simplest cryptographic techniques is the Caesar cipher (named because Julius Caesar was reported to have used it). The Caesar cipher simply replaces each letter of the alphabet ...
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