encryption

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

Noun

  1. The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
    • Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a new encryption technique that enables computing on data blindly, without decrypting it. - 2023 May 26, Rand Hindi, “How Homomorphic Encryption Can Make Blockchain Private”, in...
  2. A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
    • 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. - 2005, Kun Peng, Colin Boyd, Ed Dawson, Byoungcheon Lee, An Efficient And...

Origin

Etymology tree English encrypt Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ion English encryption From encrypt + -ion.

Forms

encryptions

Related

encrypt decrypt

Derived

homomorphic encryption on-the-fly encryption reencryption superencryption unencryption