Decryption or Decipher

Decryption or Decipher definition - hacker
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.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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