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Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō English encryption From encrypt + -ion.
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encryption (usually uncountable, plural encryptions)
- (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
2023 May 26, Rand Hindi, “How Homomorphic Encryption Can Make Blockchain Private”, in Forbes[1], New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 June 2023:Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a new encryption technique that enables computing on data blindly, without decrypting it.
- (cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
2005, Kun Peng, Colin Boyd, Ed Dawson, Byoungcheon Lee, An Efficient And Verifiable Solution To The Millionaire Problem:As ZT() can only test whether a single ciphertext is an encryption of zero, it cannot work when there are more than one ciphertext to test.
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