In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. Witch is often a password or a phrase.
The result of the process is encrypted information (in cryptography, referred to as ciphertext). In many contexts, the word encryption also implicitly refers to the reverse process, decryption, to make the encrypted information readable again.
As far as 77backup and most backup software, data is encryted before leaving the source computer, is stored cryted (data remains private) and is only decrypted when data is restored by the user.
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