Today’s #InfosecWOTD Day 21 is
#Ciphertext 🧮
When you take a plain text and apply encryption algorithm, the resulting text is called ciphertext. The algorithm is called a cipher.
The word cipher (cypher) has its origins in the Arabic word صفر sifr which means zero and it took many centuries for the word to mean encoding.
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