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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

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AES or the Advanced Encryption Standard was adopted in 2001 by the US National Institute of Standards and Testing (NIST) as the standard for symmetric encryption. Encryption protocols can also verify the authenticity of sources and prevent a sender from denying they were the origin of a transmission.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

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For users familiar with password management and the value of complex passwords, this makes sense. By 1999, its successor – the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol – offered a more robust cryptographic protocol across technical components like cipher suites, record protocol, message authentication , and handshake process.

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Types of Encryption, Methods & Use Cases

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Users can establish a symmetric key to share private messages through a secure channel, like a password manager. The RSA algorithm remains the most popular public key cryptographic system today and introduced the concept of digital signatures for authentication outside of academia.