encryption

encryption definition - finance
A data protection strategy for electronic information that is transmitted over the Internet. Encryption prevents the unauthorized access of the transmitted information.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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