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Technologies for Encryption

Encryption: Overview

There is a great need to ensure the confidentiality of business transactions over a network between an enterprise and its consumers, between enterprises, and within an enterprise. SAS products and third-party strategies for protecting data and credentials (user IDs and passwords) are exchanged in a networked environment. This process of protecting data is called encryption. Encryption is the transformation of intelligible data (plaintext) into an unintelligible form (ciphertext) by means of a mathematical process. The ciphertext is translated back to plaintext when the appropriate key that is necessary for decrypting (unlocking) the ciphertext is applied.

SAS offers two classes of encryption strength:

Encryption helps to protect information on-disk and in-transit as follows:

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