Confidentiality
Learn about confidentiality in distributed systems and how encryption secures information from unauthorized access. Understand symmetric and asymmetric encryption types, their characteristics, and how they protect data during transit and at rest to ensure system security.
Confidentiality refers to the process of protecting information from being accessed by unauthorized parties.
Achieving confidentiality
The main technique to achieve confidentiality is encryption.
Encryption
Encryption is the process of converting the original representation of some information, known as plaintext, ...