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From another user: Symmetric cryptography uses the same secret (private) key to encrypt and decrypt its data whereas asymmetric uses both a public and private key. Symmetric requires that the secret key be known by the party encrypting the data and the party decrypting the data. Asymmetric allows for distribution of your public key to anyone with which they can encrypt the data they want to send securely and then it can only be decoded by the person having the private key. This eliminates the need of having to give someone the secret key (as with symmetric encryption) and risk having it compromised. The issue with asymmetric is that it is about 1000 times slower than symmetric encryption which makes it impractical when trying to encrypt large amounts of data. Also to get the same security strength as symmetric, asymmetric must use strong a stronger key than symmetric.
Information about individuals' medical records is typically not available to the public due to privacy laws and regulations.
It has a weakness in the encryption algorithm. As result it can be hacked withing minutes.
PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. It's a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides authentication for data communication and cryptographic privacy.
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The three main methods of encryption for 802.11 wireless networks are the following: # WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) # WPA (WiFi Protected Access) # WPA2 (WiFi Protected Acess)
Encryption is the process of making information unreadable except to intended recipient by means of codes, cyphers, steganography, etc.DES - Data Encryption Standard128 bit encryption - used by browsers to communicate with secure serversRSS - Proprietary large prime number based encryptionPGP - Open source encryption similar to RSSWEP - Wired Equivalence Privacy, 40 or 128 bit encryption for secure Wi-Fietc.
There are a number of methods that are said to be good for database encryption. Some of the best rated options include GNU Privacy Guard, Disk Utility, TrueCrypt, 7-Zip and AxCrypt.
Exactly like an envelope protects mail. Electronic communications pass through many hands and systems and is vulnerable at each point. Encryption stops the casual snoop, just as an envelope does.
One of the most popular programs is PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) This uses a private key and a public one. Of course any encryption can be broken given enough time.
Phil Zimmermann created the first version of PGP encryption in 1991. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security of e-mail communications.
PGP (Public Good Privacy)