BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Encryption
- a means of encoding information, especially financial data, so that it can be transmitted over the Internet without being read by unauthorized parties.
Within an Internet security system, a secure server uses encryption when transferring or receiving data from the Web. Credit card information, for example, which could be targeted by a hacker, is encrypted by the server, turning it into special code that will then be decrypted only when it is safely within the server environment. Once the information has been acted on, it is either deleted or stored in encrypted form.
Wiktionary Definition for: Encryption
- In cryptography, encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords.
Additional Resources
- Visa Releases Encryption Guidelines for Merchants
- Visa published a set of best practices this week for end-to-end encryption in the payment card industry as work on global standards continues.Visa released a document this week with best practices for end-to-end encryption in a bid to help early adopters and encryption vendors while industry standards are being developed. The document,...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Spectra Logic Announces Free Encryption Key Management with LTO-4
- BOULDER, Colo. -- Spectra Logic, the leading innovator in data archive and backup, today announced its support for LTO-4, including LTO-4 drive-based encryption, in the T50, T120 and T950 libraries. LTO-4 encryption requires a key management solution be in place to manage the encryption keys. Spectra Logic has extended BlueScale...
- Research articles 2007-04-30
- NetCom System uses high-security encryption algorithm.(Marketplace)
- Bosch Security Systems announces the release of the D6600 NetCom System using the new National Institute of Standards and Technology/Advanced Encryption Standard (NIST/AES) Rijndael encryption algorithm. By using the Rijndael encryption algorithm, th Bosch Security Systems announces the release of the D6600 NetCom System using...
- Research articles 2003-08-01
- JAWS Technologies Unveils Industry's Most Sophisticated Security Encryption Software
- CALGARY, Alberta--BUSINESS WIRE--July 27, 1998-- Leading Encryption Company Debuts 4096-Bit Encryption Software; JAWS L5 Encryption Ideal for Corporate and Personal Data Security Application JAWS Technologies (NASDAQ:JAWZ) announced today the world's strongest security encryption softwgital information.JAWS L5 Data Encryption is the industry's first encryption software product with 409being statistically unbreakable. The...
- Research articles 1998-07-27
- Award-winning DESlock+ security package provides low-cost, fast, on-the-fly encryption; Data Encryption Systems launches easy-to-use data security product offering transparent protection.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-14 March 2005-Data Encryption Systems: Award-winning DESlock+ security package provides low-cost, fast, on-the-fly encryption; Data Encryption Systems launches easy-to-use data security product offering transparent protectionC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14032005 Taunton, UK: Data Encryption Systems Limited, the UK's leader ...
- Research articles 2005-03-14
- Ceelox Says FIPS 140-2 Validated Encryption Module Now Available in Its Vault Encryption Software Application
- Wireless News 08-14-2007 Ceelox Says FIPS 140-2 Validated Encryption Module Now Available in Its Vault Encryption Software Application WIRELESS NEWS-August 14, 2007-Ceelox Says FIPS 140-2 Validated Encryption Module Now Available in Its Vault Encryption Software Application C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com ...
- Research articles 2007-08-14
- New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute
- IDG News Service - Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Twofish Encryption Algorithm: A 128-Bit Block Cipher, The
- TWOFISH ENCRYPTION Bruce Schneier et al. The Twofish Encryption Algorithm: A 128-Bit Block Cipher. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Ave., New York, NY 10158-0012 USA. 1999. 186 pp. $49.95 hardbound. The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has announced it is replacing DES Data Encryption Standard, the...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- First Security Solution for Speech and Data Encryption on Smartphones and PDAs;Utimaco Safeware and GSMK combine the SafeGuard PDA authentication and data encryption solution with GSMK CryptoPhone voice encryption software; .....
- M2 PRESSWIRE-20 September 2006-UTIMACO: First Security Solution for Speech and Data Encryption on Smartphones and PDAs;Utimaco Safeware and GSMK combine the SafeGuard PDA authentication and data encryption solution with GSMK CryptoPhone voice encryption software; Confidential phone calls and sensitive data rendered tap and access proof on...
- Research articles 2006-09-20
- Aegis Padlock Secure Drive Protects Data with Keypad and Encryption [Storage]
- Copy this whole post to another site Perfect for paranoid types, the Padlock portable hard disks have their own keypad and administrator feature for tailored PIN access. The USB drives have 128-bit realtime or 256-bit AES hardware encryption, shock mounting, and come in sizes up to 500GB. The encryption is...
- News items 2009-08-20
- Encryption: Critical to Our Infrastructure
- This white paper provides an overview of enterprise encryption. The topics covered include an overview of enterprise encryption talking about critical infrastructure, an Overview of Homeland Security, Regulatory and Industry Initiatives, Corporate Governance Initiatives, Encryption and other related questions. It deals with Encryption: Critical to Our Infrastructure, A National Strategy...
- White papers 2004-01-12
- Government needs to relax.(on rules for soft encryption)
- Software executives, including Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, say that a more relaxed U.S. encryption export policy--not charges antitrust violations-is the most important regulatory issue facing the software industry. encryption policy, software exec Software executives, including Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, say that a...
- Research articles 1998-06-15
- PGP Corporation's Network Encryption Product Named Best Encryption Solution by SC Magazine; PGP Universal's Automatic Encryption Simplifies Enterprise Secure Email
- PALO ALTO, Calif. -- PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise encryption solutions, today announced that PGPR Universal has been selected by SC Magazine as the Best Encryption Solution for 2005. Awards were given at the SC Magazine Global Awards banquet held on February 16 in conjunction with the RSA...
- Research articles 2005-02-17
- Studios' digital deal.(Warner Bros., Sony Pictures agree to encryption)(Brief Article)
- Warner Bros., Sony Pictures agree to encryption; others may sign on soon Hollywood edged a little closer to cable operators' interactive video dreams as two studios last week agreed to encryption technology that protects their digital works f ...
- Research articles 2001-07-23
- RSA encryption
- RSA encryption A method of public key encryption see cryptography devised by Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman. A message is encrypted by mapping it onto an integer, M say, raising M to a publicly known power e and forming the remainder on...
- Research articles 2004-01-01
- SafeNet and By Light Partner to Deliver an Integrated Encryption Solution for Today's Federal & Commercial Communications; Solution Combines SafeNet's State-of-the-Art Encryption Products With By Light's World-Class Engineering Service
- BALTIMORE, Md. -- SafeNet, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFNT), setting the standard for information security, today announced a partnership with By Light Professional IT Services, a provider of engineering expertise for securing Government IT networks and facilities. The partnership will deliver an integrated encryption solution combining SafeNet's SONET encryption products with By Light's...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Software-encryption libraries use AES, DES, RSA, DSA.(Microprocessors)(Brief Article)
- Two encryption-software libraries developed by NTRU Cryptosystems include C-callable functions. The dsPIC30F symmetric-key-encryption library uses the AES and Triple DES secret-key algorithms and has RAM usage lower than 60 bytes. The dsPIC30F asym Two encryption-software libraries developed by NTRU Cryptosystems include C-callable functions....
- Research articles 2005-03-17
- Protegrity to offer encryption software. (News in Brief).(from RSA Security INc. (US))(Brief Article)
- Stamford-based Protegrity Inc. said it has a strategic partnership with RSA Security Inc. to sell new releases of Protegrity's Secure.Data database security solutions that use an RSA BSAFE encryption module. RSA BSAFE encryption software is certif Stamford-based Protegrity Inc. said it has a...
- Research articles 2003-04-07
- Spectra Logic Introduces First Tape Libraries with Encryption at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo; Users Protect Data in Transport Affordably, Effortlessly with Encryption-Enabled Libraries
- ORLANDO, Fla. -- Without encryption, data backups are vulnerable to unintended or malicious actions that put at risk confidential information and thousands or millions of identities, exposing organizations to serious legal liability. To address this risk, Spectra Logic today announces encryption-enabled libraries that integrate data backup with federally approved AES-256...
- Research articles 2005-10-17
- Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week said he plans next month to introduce a bill that would allow U.S. companies immediately to begin exporting stronger encryption software and to export even stronger encryption by Jan. 1, 2
- Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) last week said he plans next month to introduce a bill that would allow U.S. companies immediately to begin exporting stronger encryption software and to export even stronger encryption by Ja Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain...
- Research articles 1999-04-05
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