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Symmetric Key Encryption vs Public Key Encryption Cryptography is the study of hiding information, and it is used when communicating over an untrusted medium such as internet, where information needs to be protected from other third parties. Modern cryptography focuses on developing cryptographic algorithms that can encrypt data so that it is hard to break […]
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Data Compression vs Data Encryption Data compression is the process of reducing the size of data. It uses an encoding scheme, which encodes the data using a less number of bits than the original data. Encryption is also a process of transforming data that is used in cryptography. It converts the original data in to […]
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Encoding vs Encryption Encoding is the process of transforming data in to a different format using a method that is publicly available. The purpose of this transformation is to increase the usability of data especially in different systems. Encryption is also a process of transforming data that is used in cryptography. It converts the original […]
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Hashing vs Encrypting The process of transforming a character string in to a shorter fixed length value (called hash values, hash codes, hash sums or checksums) that represents the original string is called hashing. Usually, a function is used to perform this transformation and it is called a hash function. Hashing would make the indexing […]