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The flaw was not in the basic encryption formula used to protect the information being transmitted, but in the protocol used by two devices to exchange a key -- in this case, a large number -- that is used by the formula to encode and unlock the data.
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"The posting of the de-encryption formula is no different from making and then distributing unauthorized keys to a department store".
Like other encryption systems, the new invention grew out of advanced mathematical formulas.
In those documents it was revealed that the NSA formula was actually flawed and had been used by the agency to create a backdoor into encryption products.
And while Office 2003 had much better encryption than its predecessors, it still wasn't good enough for users with supersensitive information, like the proverbial formula for Coca-Cola.
Encryption is a way of scrambling data and, for quite some time, this has meant using mathematical formulas to transform data -- words or numbers, say, into strings of unreadable data.
Encryption works.
Encryption is widely available.
See also data encryption.
Answer: Encryption works.
Encryption is special.
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