You receive an email containing sensitive information from a colleague, but the information is in a format that makes no sense and appears random. This type of information is most likely:
This type of information is referred to as cipher text because it has been encrypted to protect the data. Plain text would be readable and understandable, whereas cipher text is scrambled to prevent unauthorized access. Encrypted data must be decrypted to make sense.
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