How does encrypting work?

Answer 1

Encryption uses a algorithm to apply and series of symbols and numbers to sensitive data like a password or private data. There are varying levels of encryption form low level to very high government level.

Encryption is a type of security for you to use when on your computer. Many of us tend to enter our personal information on our computer not realizing that people hack computers everyday and seal your information. This can led to something as bad as identity theft. When you use encryption you basically use a code for all of your information that only you can understand. This can definitely protect you from someone stealing your personal information.

Answer 2

data encryption the process of scrambling stored or transmitted information so that it is unintelligible until it is unscrambled by the intended recipient. Historically, data encryption has been used primarily to protect diplomatic and military secrets from foreign governments. It is also now used increasingly by the financial industry to protect money transfers, by merchants to protect credit-card information in electronic commerce, and by corporations to secure sensitive communications of proprietary information.

All modern cryptography is based on the use of algorithms to scramble (encrypt) the original message, called plaintext, into unintelligible babble, called ciphertext. The operation of the algorithm requires the use of a key. Until 1976 the algorithms were symmetric, that is, the key used to encrypt the plaintext was the same as the key used to decrypt the ciphertext.