Chapter 8. Protecting Data: Encryption
Introduction
Without encryption, it is easy for anyone with access to a computer between you and the receiver to view transmitted data while it is in transit. In fact, this book includes a chapter that describes how to monitor network traffic at the packet level. This network traffic could include confidential or privileged information that you transmit from your computer.
Security is paramount in financial transactions and many other types of information exchange with an associated dollar value. It is vitall that privileged information remain in the hands of its rightful owners and not stray into the hands of hackers, or worse, the public domain.
This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section ...
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