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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats