Meanwhile in Britain, a student at the University of Exeter has produced an version of a well -
known encryption algorithm known by the acronym RSA.
Don't worry —
knowing the encryption algorithms and how they're implemented doesn't undermine the security, and some experts assert that open - source software is more secure than proprietary software due to greater scrutiny and quicker patching of discovered flaws.
Not exact matches
Notably, though, since there is a logical relationship between the original value and the new value, protecting the
encryption algorithm — also
known as the key — is extremely important.
Encryption is a branch of cryptography, and involves making plain text unreadable by using an
algorithm,
known as cipher.
That is because we now
know for a fact that government agencies in the US, Great Britain, and other countries really are vacuuming up all the data they can get and compromising networks, hardware, software, and
encryption algorithms at will.
The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure
encryption algorithms currently
known (AES and Twofish).