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Code Fellows 401

Encryption is the process of converting plaintext into a form that is unreadable without a secret key.
Decryption is the process of converting the encrypted data back into its original form using the secret key.
Symmetric encryption uses the same key for encryption and decryption.
Asymmetric encryption uses a public key to encrypt the data and a private key to decrypt the data.
Code cracking refers to the process of figuring out the encryption key or algorithm used to encrypt a message, without access to the key.