Discipline or techniques employed in protecting integrity or secrecy of electronic messages by converting them into unreadable (cipher text) form.
Discipline or techniques employed in protecting integrity or secrecy of electronic messages by converting them into unreadable (cipher text) form. Only the use of a secret key can convert the cipher text back into human readable (clear text) form. Cryptography software and/or hardware devices use mathematical formulas (algorithms) to change text from one form to another.
