Associations to the word «Encryption»

Wiktionary

ENCRYPTION, noun. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...

Dictionary definition

ENCRYPTION, noun. The activity of converting data or information into code.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky