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OCR: Copyright Paul D Bain, 1993 ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGIES Encryption Defined Encryption technology has added a new level of security to information stored or communicated uo computers. Unlike other methods of protection, encryption does not try to prevent physical access to computerized information. Rather, encryption codes computerized information into a form unreadable by anyone without the ability to decode Computerized encryption is based upon principles of coding that are almost 2000 years old. Computerized information is disauised by mathematical formula an algorithm, that translates information into strings of numbers and symbols. 50 Untranslated information IS known as plaintext and encrypted information ic known as ciphertext. Only holders of the proper mathematical key can re. -transla ...