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Encryption made less cryptic: Why do you need it?
Encryption helps protect your private information so that it cannot be intercepted and read by a third party. Encryption is the scrambling of information for transmission back and forth between two points. A key is required to decode the information.

Updated: 8:11 am ET February 19, 2008