Encryption and Encoding
Encryption and Encoding Hello dev, in todays article I will be talking about encryption and encoding termnologies in software engineering. These are quiet important concepts necessary for any new bie in tech to know. Data is secured and preserved through encryption and encoding respectively. Also, by the end of this writeup you would understand that salting a password is different from the term encryption and encoding. What is encoding? Enc oding of data is the process of transforming information from one format into another . It is used to make data easier to transmit , store , and manipulate . For example , when sending data over the Internet , it is encoded into a format that is readable by the receiver . Data encoding is used to reduce the amount of data that needs to be stored or transmitted . This is done by using algorithms that compress or encode the data into a smaller and more efficient...