Glossary of Security Terms: Decryption

Written by mozilla | Published 2020/08/28
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TLDR In cryptography, decryption is the conversion of ciphertext into cleartext. Decryption is mathematically hard to perform. How hard depends on the security of the cryptographic algorithm chosen and evolves with the progress of cryptanalysis.Published under Open CC Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 license under the terms of "Encryption and Decryption" and "Decryption," published under the same license as "MitMRobots.txt," "Cipher," and "Session Hijacking"via the TL;DR App

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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/28