Symmetric encryption utilizes a single key which both communicating parties use for encryption and decryption. However, both devices need to have the key before the communication begins.

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The decryption and re-encryption of confidential data at various router or switching junctions throughout the transmission path. For example, a transmission from Boston to Phoenix is encrypted in ...

A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information is based on compounds with carefully modulated luminescent properties that change in response to external stimuli.

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Honey Encryption is an encryption tool in the works that fools an attacker with bogus decrypted data that looks like it could be a plausible guess at an encryption key or password.