Confidentiality

Learn about confidentiality and the techniques to achieve confidentiality.

Confidentiality refers to the process of protecting information from being accessed by unauthorized parties.

Achieving confidentiality

The main technique to achieve confidentiality is encryption.

Encryption

Encryption is the process of converting the original representation of some information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form, known as ciphertext. The ciphertext can be converted back to the original plaintext only by specific ...