Encryption

Encryption is a way of securely storing or transferring data by using special encryption key or algorithm to cipher its contents. For anyone else except the target recipient, the encrypted source will appear as a piece of unreadable, garbled data, making encryption a valuable instrument to hide private or secret information from strangers.

The target recipient possesses the unique decryption key which enables to decipher encrypted data and thus arrive at the original content. If someone manages to get hold of the unique decryption key, he/she can read that data as well. That’s why it’s important to keep the key in secure, tightly guarded location.