
Encryption – Symmetric Encryption vs Asymmetric Encryption – Cryptography – Practical TLS
Encryption is how data confidentiality is provided. Data before it is encrypted is referred to as Plaintext (or Cleartext) and the process of encryption turns it into Cipher text. Cipher text should be unintelligible. Only the intended recipient should have the ability to Decrypt data, which turns Cipher text back into Plaintext. There are two…