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Encryption software is an application whose main task is encryption and decryption of data. Encryption software illustrates an algorithm designed to encrypt data in such a way that it cannot be recovered without accessing the key, thus, facilitating the user to protect privacy of critical files, folders by encrypting them with strong encryption algorithms. The intention behind encryption is to preclude third parties from recovering the original information and is important for sensitive data like credit card numbers.
Decryption is just the opposite of encryption. It is a method by which ordinary data, or plain text, is converted into a cipher. A cipher, often incorrectly identified as a code, is a system in which every letter of a plain text message is replaced with another letter so as to obscure its meaning. To decipher a message requires a key, an algorithm that provides the method by which the message was encrypted.
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