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Glossary of Security Terms: Encryption by@mozilla
Glossary of Security Terms: Encryption
by Mozilla ContributorsSeptember 2nd, 2020
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Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. In cryptography, encryption is the conversion of cleartext into a coded text or ciphertext. A ciphertext is intended to be unreadable by unauthorized readers. The reverse operation, decryption, is mathematically hard to perform. How hard depends on the security of the cryptographic algorithm chosen and evolves with the progress of cryptanalysis. It is performed using a specific algorithm and a secret, called the key.Company Mentioned
In , encryption is the conversion of into a coded text or . A ciphertext is intended to be unreadable by unauthorized readers.
Encryption is a cryptographic primitive: it transforms a plaintext message into a ciphertext using a cryptographic algorithm called a . ncryption in modern ciphers is performed using a specific algorithm and a secret, called the . Since the algorithm is often public, the key must stay secret if the encryption stays secure.Without knowing the secret, the reverse operation, , is mathematically hard to perform. How hard depends on the security of the cryptographic algorithm chosen and evolves with the progress of .
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- Cross-site scripting
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic hash function
- Cryptography
- CSP
- CSRF
- Decryption
- Digital certificate
- DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
- Forbidden header name
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- Hash
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- HPKP
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- MitM
- OWASP
- Preflight request
- Public-key cryptography
- Reporting directive
- Robots.txt
- Same-origin policy
- Session Hijacking
- SQL Injection
- Symmetric-key cryptography
- TOFU
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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