Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "encryption" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "encryption" over time.
In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext. Despite its goal, encryption does not itself prevent interference but denies the intelligible content to a would-be interceptor. Read more on Wikipedia