The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
An undefined, unknown or unimportant person; a person of no consequence.
The direction of a rake-vein.
A roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
A frame for composing type.
Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
Apropos of nothing; lacking context; unexpected; having apparent lack of plan, cause, or reason.
Characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.
Being out of the ordinary; unusual or unexpected.
Having unpredictable outcomes and, in the ideal case, all outcomes equally probable; resulting from such selection; lacking statistical correlation.
Of or relating to probability distribution.
Representative and undistinguished; typical and average; selected for no particular reason.