Encryption

Encryption

The process of encoding data such that users and processes with proper authentication credentials can access it, while unauthorised users cannot.

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Industry/Domain: Software
Category: Operating systems
Company: Red Hat
Product: Red Hat Linux 9
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Internet; Internet communication

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Accounting; Auditing

is scrambling data so it is meaningless to anyone but the intended recipient, who has the key to unscramble the data.

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Software; Anti virus

Encryption is the scrambling of data so that it becomes difficult to unscramble and interpret.

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Engineering; Electronic engineering

The conversion of a signal from plain text, graphics, or other commonly recognizable form into a cipher.

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Telecommunications; General telecom

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To emphasize displayed characters, as by displaying them in reverse video (light on dark rather than dark on light, and vice versa) or against a colored background.

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Pertaining to the device, program, file, record or portion of the screen that is currently operational or subject to command operations.

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Software; Operating systems

Shading made up of regularly spaced, intersecting lines.

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Software; Operating systems

To translate all the source code of a program from a high-level language into object code prior to execution of the program.

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