Weegy: Encryption can protect the data at the simplest level by preventing other people from reading the data. [ In the event that someone intercepts a data transmission and manages to deceive any user identification scheme, the data that they see appears to be gibberish without a way to decode it. Encryption technologies can help in other ways as well, by establishing the identity of users (or abusers); control the unauthorized transmission or forwarding of data; verify the integrity of the data (i.e., that it has not been altered in any way); and ensure that users take responsibility for data that they have transmitted. Encryption can therefore be used either to keep communications secret (defensively) or to identify people involved in communications (offensively).
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