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Encipherment is
- the process of translating plaintext into ciphertext.
- "[t]he cryptographic transformation of data . . . to produce ciphertext."[1]
Encipherment is
| “ | the process of making data unreadable to unauthorized entities by applying a cryptographic algorithm (an encryption algorithm). Decipherment (decryption) is the reverse operation by which the ciphertext is transformed to the plaintext.[2] | ” |