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To encode (encrypt) data in order to make it indecipherable without having a secret key to "unlock" it. The term came from the early days of cryptography which camouflaged analog transmissions with secret frequency patterns. Today, the 0s and 1s of digital data are rearranged into different sequences. See cryptography.



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