Friday, April 7, 2017

Encryption

Encryption  is a method used to ensure the Integrity and confidentiality of of data. Encryption algorithms convert the data into cipher text which is not readable unless it is decrypted.

Data encryption can be divided into 2 as

  1. Symmetric Encryption
  2. Asymmetric Encryption   


In Symmetric encryption a single key is used for both encryption and decryption.