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Encode definition - hacker
The process of converting one digital format to another by applying known algorithms either to obscure the content of the file or data or to compress the data or convert it to another format. The term is also used to describe the conversion of ordinary language into code. Frequently, the term is used to mean encrypt.

See Also: Decode BASE64; Encrypt.

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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