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Encryption

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ɪnˈkrɪpʃən/nounCore term

In software engineering, encryption means: Turning data into an unreadable form that can only be turned back with the right key, so that people without the key cannot read it.

In Turkish: şifreleme

How it is used

Cloud teams talk about 'encryption at rest' (stored data, such as disks and buckets) and 'encryption in transit' (data moving over the network, usually with TLS). Keys are often kept in a key management service (KMS).

Example sentences

  1. Encryption at rest is turned on for every disk and bucket by default.

  2. The auditors asked us to prove encryption in transit between the services.

Common collocations

  • encryption at rest
  • encryption in transit
  • encryption key
  • end-to-end encryption
  • secretA sensitive value that a system needs to work, such as a password, API key, token or private key, which must be stored safely and never shown in code or logs.
  • IAMShort for identity and access management: the system that controls who or what can sign in to a cloud account and what they are allowed to do there.
  • bucketA named container in object storage, such as Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage, that holds files and has its own access and storage settings.
  • shared responsibility modelThe idea that security in the cloud is split: the provider protects the data centers, hardware and core services, and the customer protects their own data, settings and access.

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