Infrastructure

Encryption

A cryptographic transformation that makes data unreadable without the required key. Encryption can protect stored data or data moving between systems, but the scope matters: a server that decrypts a request can still read its contents. Encryption is not anonymization, and encoding a value as Base64 is not encryption.

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