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Encryption The process used to convert plaintext or readable text into ciphertext. Encryption may be used on any data because all data is represented by binary numbers within computer systems. The input to the encryption algorithm is one set of binary numbers and the output is another. The algorithm can both scramble and descramble the data.
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