Encryption
My third critical thinking will be discussing and analyzing encryption. In the first part, I will be pretending that I am a chief officer of information technology at a retail store in Medina which has five thousand customers subscribing to its electronic services. In the second part, I will be providing a report about the necessity of using encryption methods for the available electronic services to achieve a higher security level. In the third part, I will be providing a diagram for encryption. In the fourth part, I will be adding recommendations related to encryption. In the last part, I will be adding my point of view and will be ending my report with conclusion and references.
Encryption is defined as a method of converting electronic information into a secret codes, called cipher text, which cannot be easily understood by normal users except authorized parties. Additionally, the aim of encryption is to protect secret information for government or commercial companies from getting hacked or stolen by perpetrators or hackers. …show more content…
The first type of encryption is hashing. Hashing has a fixed-length signature for a message or information set. Every hash has a particular message, so any changes on that message would make it so simple to be tracked. Once information is encrypted using hashing method, it cannot be reversed or deciphered.
The second type of encryption is symmetric. Symmetric encryption also known as symmetric key or private-key cryptography, and the reason of calling it a symmetric key because the same key used to encrypt and decrypt the data. For instance, if you encrypted a message on a CD and send it to another party, the key must also be sent to the second party so that he/ she