Asymmetric Cryptography

What is cryptography?

Cryptography is a technology used to safeguard information or communication against unauthorized access. The concept behind this technique is simple—cryptography uses mathematical algorithms to encrypt and decrypt data.

Encryption is the process of transforming readable data into unreadable data. This is done using an algorithm and a string of bytes (the key). Encrypted data is not understandable by anyone, the only way to access the data is by decrypting it.

Decryption is the inverse process of transforming encrypted data back into its original form.