The short answer is: because they’re two completely different beasts which were developed for two completely different purposes. The whole point of encryption is so that the intended recipient(s) can recover the original data while being inpenetrable to unauthorised viewers. Whereas data masking is all about not being able to recover the original data. Where [...]
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Why Encryption Is Not Data Masking
Posted on March 29, 2011 by Llyr Jones. Posted in: Test data. Tagged in: Data masking, Encryption.
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