Answered: Briefly explain encryption

Database System Concepts

7th Edition

ISBN:9780078022159

Author:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Publisher:Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan

Chapter1: Introduction

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Briefly explain encryption

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Basically Encryption is a process or a method which would help to converts the main data into encrypt format and stores into hidden layers. The Decryption is a process which converts the encrypt format file into the main data with some methods. The process of doing both Encryption and Decryption is called Cryptography.

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In cryptography process the main data or raw data is known as “Plain text” and the encrypt data is known as “cipher text”. By using some formulas to encode and decode the data is called as Encryption Algorithms or Cipher methods.

The Encrypted data can usually decrypt or decode by using the “key”. Where the key is act as intermediate process between Encryption and Decryption method. In key, it usually contain the encrypted method or shared encrypted value which will helps to decode the cipher text and converted into plain text.
The Importance of Encryption plays a major role to hide the valuable data into encrypted format.

The Importance of Encryption are

Confidentiality
Integrity
Non-repudiation
Authentication

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