Recently I saw a question about “binary encryption”. They were asking people to decode a set of numbers or something, which were all 1’s and 0’s. And somebody came up with some results using a website I think.
I don’t get this. What is binary encryption? Is it just a code you can use? How do you “break” the code, if possible? Any more details would be appreciated.
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1 Silent // Aug 6, 2008
The phrase “binary encryption” doesn’t mean anything in particular. The question was probably referring to ASCII, a code (not encryption) used by almost all modern computers to store text as binary numbers. There are a number of websites that can translate ASCII characters to and from binary digits.
2 The_Doc_Man // Aug 6, 2008
Binary encryption involves using a special bit string as a pattern to perform some sort of logical or mathematical transformation of a source string into an encrypted string. The special bit string is called a “key.” The key can be a two-way key, in which case you are looking at something called reversible encryption. It also means that you used one of the operators that supports Hermetian mathematical operations. A key can be a one-way key, in which case you might be generating a hash - also known in math as a characteristic - which forms a sort of digital signature. Finally, if you have the public-key encryption, you have TWO keys - one public, the other private. If you encrypt a message with your private key and someone else decrypts that message with the public key, that person knows you sent it.
You can look up encryption on wikipedia.org
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