Case 3 You have just secured a new job with a new firm that has a lot of industrial secrets to protect, or else risk loss of their competitive advantage. Your role is to learn as much as possible about encryption so you can help the firm keep their initiatives confidential until they are released to the market. In the context of computing, encryption can be used in many ways, EXCEPT ____.
A) securing credit card numbers transferred from shoppers' computers to e-commerce sites
B) scrambling data sent over wired or wireless networks to prevent intrusions
C) scrambling the contents of e-mail messages to maintain privacy
D) decrypting computer archives so that the data they contain is unusable if the archive is lost or compromised

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Encryption is used to protect data from unauthorized access either in transit or at rest. Decrypting computer archives to make data unusable is not a use of encryption, but rather a use of data destruction or security measures in case of lost or compromised archives.

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