Security

Internet Security

Terminology

Confidentiality: Prevent unauthorized viewing of private information.

Integrity: Information you receive is from who you think it is from and not modified in any way since it was sent.

Plaintext is a message that will be put into secret form.

Ciphertext is the transformed version of plaintext that is unintelligible to anyone without the means to decrypt it.

Encryption is the act of going from plaintext to ciphertext. The opposite is Decryption

The strength of a cryptosystem is determined by the encryption and decryption techniques and the length of the Key

Secret Key is the

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