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Overview of encryption - Windows Tutorial
From the course: Windows 11: Security
Overview of encryption
- [Instructor] In this section, I'd like to talk about encryption in Windows 11. We'll define encryption as encoding data, such that it is unusable until decrypted. If you look at encrypted data, it just looks like gibberish, and decrypting is the process of turning that information back into readable data. The data should be exactly as it was before the encryption. There's two broad categories of places we'll need to encrypt data. One is data in motion, and that is data that is traveling through a network. The other is data at rest, and that is when data is stationary in a file or a drive. Data in motion in Windows 11 can be encrypted using IPsec, which is a combination of an abbreviation and an acronym. It means internet protocol security, and in a Windows network, it is the preferred way to encrypt internal network traffic. As far as external network traffic, in other words, traffic that goes out to the internet, we…
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