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Decryption or Decipher Hacker Definition

The process of taking encrypted data that has been put into a “secret” format called ciphertext and converting it to the original plaintext. To complete this process, a key or password is needed.

See Also: Encryption or Encipher; Key; Password; Plaintext.

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