Modes of Connection

• Plaintext


  Intelligible data that has meaning and can be understood without the application of decryption
• Ciphertext


  The encrypted message
• Encryption


  The process of scrambling data in such a way that only legitimate users can read it
• Key


  A sequence of letters, numbers and other characters used to encrypt or decrypt
• Encryption Algorithm


  The method used to transform data into ciphertext
• Hackers can intercept data transmitted across a network
• It is important to make sure that people who intercept data can't read it
• Encryption is what makes sure people who intercept data can't read it
• Modern cryptographic techniques use complicated algorithms to scramble data
• Hackers can't read encrypted data without a key which is given as an input to the decryption algorithm