multi-tierencryption
nounMulti-tier encryption is when you lock a secret with more than one lock, one after another, to keep it extra safe.
The app uses multi-tier encryption so that even if one lock is broken, the message stays hidden.
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2. A security design where data is protected by several independent encryption stages, each with its own key.
The bank stores customer records with multi-tier encryption across three separate key systems.
3. A system that applies different encryption strengths to different parts of the same data.
Their multi-tier encryption keeps public fields lightly protected and private fields strongly locked.
4. The practice of encrypting data again after it has already been encrypted once.
Multi-tier encryption means the file is scrambled, then scrambled again before it is sent.