--- title: 'Email Encryption' bgcolor: '#8EB726' fontcolor: '#1F5C60' text_align: left wider_column: right --- ## What is encryption --- Encryption is when you change data with a special encoding process so that the data becomes unrecognizable (it's encrypted). You can then apply a special decoding process and you will get the original data back. By keeping the decoding process a secret, nobody else can recover the original data from the encrypted data. [Video - How asymmetric encryption works](https://invidious.snopyta.org/E5FEqGYLL0o)