What Is Encryption And How Does It Protect Your Data?

🗃 What Is Encryption And How Does It Protect Your Data? 🗳

    Encryption is the process that scrambles readable text so it can only be read by the person who has the secret code, or decryption key. It helps provide data security for sensitive information.

    Vast amounts of personal information are managed online and stored in the cloud or on servers with an ongoing connection to the web. It’s nearly impossible to do business of any kind without your personal data ending up in an organization’s networked computer system, which is why it’s important to know how to help keep that data private.

Encryption plays an essential role.

🗃 How Does Encryption Work? 🗳

    Encryption is the process of taking plain text, like a text message or email, and scrambling it into an unreadable format — called “cipher text.” This helps protect the confidentiality of digital data either stored on computer systems or transmitted through a network like the internet.

    When the intended recipient accesses the message, the information is translated back to its original form. This is called decryption.

    To unlock the message, both the sender and the recipient have to use a “secret” encryption key — a collection of algorithms that scramble and unscramble data back to a readable format.

🗃 Symmetric & Asymmetric Encryption: What’s The Difference? 🗳

    An encryption key is a series of numbers used to encrypt and decrypt data. Encryption keys are created with algorithms. Each key is random and unique.

There are two types of encryption systems: symmetric encryption and asymmetric encryption. Here’s how they’re different.

📍Symmetric encryption uses a single password to encrypt and decrypt data.

📍Asymmetric encryption uses two keys for encryption and decryption. A public key, which is shared among users, encrypts the data. A private key, which is not shared, decrypts the data.