5 Encoding and decoding
It’s easy to confuse the topic of encoding and decoding with encryption. These are similar procedures, but the purpose of encryption is to conceal and safeguard information. Encoding is done for transportation of information that may be too complex for the medium or to translate between different systems or for other innocuous purposes. Regardless, the process of encoding and decoding has the potential to be action packed and full of intrigue.
Well, perhaps not.
Still, back in the early days of computer telecommunications, encoding and decoding were regular occurrences. I remember transferring my first program over a modem: 16 kilobytes that took 16 minutes to transfer. That program consisted of binary data, but it was ...
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