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Lab — Encrypt & Decrypt
25 min+24 XP
Module progress5 of 6
Opening
Visualizing Data Transformation
It is one thing to read about Plaintext and Ciphertext; it is another to see it happen in real-time. In this interactive lab, you will act as both the sender and the receiver to understand exactly how mathematical algorithms protect data.
Encrypt & Decrypt Lab
Lab Takeaway
Notice how changing even a single letter in your secret key completely fails to decrypt the data. The math is absolute. If you lose your decryption key in the real world, the data is gone forever.