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May 14, 2008
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Encryption or $%&#@&*!
D open safeid you ever use secret codes when you were a kid to send messages to your friends that only they could read? Though encryption is a far cry from our days of writing with jumbled alphabets and lemon juice, the idea is basically the same. Encryption is the use of specialized codes that scramble messages. Once a message is encrypted, it can be read only by the intended recipient who would use a "key" to decrypt the message. Once decoded, a message can be transformed back into the original data. For all but the simplest kinds of encryption, a mathematical formula called an algorithm makes this work.

At one time the military and the Government were the primary users of encryption technology but, today, we all use this technology daily. Businesses of all sizes, online retailers and some consumers use encryption to protect their e-mails from being read by unwanted eyes. Because the Internet is an open network of servers, an e-mail message can sometimes travel around the world before it reaches it's destination. It can be easily picked up and read. Without encryption, these messages are like postcards dropped into the mail, easily read by anyone who happens to see it. With encryption, a message is unreadable, except by the intended recipient who can decode it.slug


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