Today, in the digital era, encryption is done using computers and algorithms which convert plain text into incorrigible text. The text which looks like jumbled code can be decoded back to plain ...

So what is encryption? It is the process of taking plain data, including text, and converting it into an unreadable (by humans or computers) form.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi REUTERS/Rick Stevens The government of India has scrapped a proposal for a new law on encryption that would have required all citizens to maintain a plain-text ...

All messages are encrypted before they leave your computer, so there's no concern that plain text is being sent and then encrypted on a third-party server.

The Web hosting service had been e-mailing plain text private keys used for decrypting secure data transmitted online – a practice security experts say puts sensitive information at risk.

For encryption this will produce a .gpg (fine) or a .asc (contains plain text of the encrypted file, also fine). But what if you have text you want to encrypt and decrypt?

Even if you're using IMAP to access your email, certain newer email clients like Thunderbird 3 and Postbox will download and store your emails locally in plain text. This leaves many users making ...

The study also draws on data from the second core feature of Cloudsweeper: The ability to discover and then redact or encrypt passwords that various services may send to users in plain text.

Most of the traffic on the optical fibre is transmitted using plain text protocols – packets which contain a plain text header (to and from address) and a payload (the message).

The study also draws on data from the second core feature of Cloudsweeper: The ability to discover and then redact or encrypt passwords that various services may send to users in plain text.