encryption — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.

   Gebrauch

   • nicht zählbar
   • usually

   Beispiele

   Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a new encryption technique that enables computing on data blindly, without decrypting it.

2. A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.

   Gebrauch

   • nicht zählbar
   • usually

   Beispiele

   As ZT() can only test whether a single ciphertext is an encryption of zero, it cannot work when there are more than one ciphertext to test.

Substantiv

1. the activity of converting data or information into code

   Synonyme

   encoding

   Oberbegriffe

   cryptographycodingsecret writingsteganography