Thursday 5 November 2015

Various Applications of Encryption



As the cybercrime is rapidly increasing on the internet, the demand of encryption is also enhanced with it. Encryption is a trouble-free technique. In this, you have to convert your message or data into another format which is unreadable. The original message is known as “plain text” and converted or unreadable data is known as “Cipher text”. Encryption has three main applications that are:-

1. File or Folder encryption:-

In this, the individual file or directory is encrypted by using some method or algorithms. The decryption method or keys are also stored in the memory to decrypt the data. The PGP file encryption method doesn't decrypt the meta data of the file.

2. Database Encryption:-

To transform the data of the database so that untrusted person can't read it is known as database encryption. This technique also protects data from hackers. You can encrypt only a column or number of columns in Database encryption method.

3. Web encryption:-

While using the internet, sometimes “HTTPS” appears in some websites URL which means this is HTTP secured. It is the other method of encryption used on the internet to secured the data. Highly secured schemes are used to secure the internet data.

Various encryption schemes and methods are used to protect the crucial data from the unauthorized person.

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