One-Way Encryption

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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Irreversible transformation of plaintext to cipher text, such that the plaintext cannot be recovered from the cipher text by other than exhaustive procedures even if the cryptographic key is known.

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Classifications

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Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: One-Way Encryptions
possessive: One-Way Encryption's
pluralpossessive: One-Way Encryptions'

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