[Jacob Mannon]

Cryptography is incredibly valuable because it allows for us to take data and hide it while it is moving from one place to another. The value is that it is scrambled or moved around and then sent to its destination where it can then be turned back into its original message. The point of this is to help prevent attackers from stealing data from the network while it is in transit. The main types of encryptions are symmetric, asymmetric, and data hashing. The differences are that symmetric will use the same key that was used to encrypt the message to decrypt it. Asymmetric encryption will require two different keys to decrypt the data. Hashing is where a piece of data is put through an algorithm and is then sent to its destination.

-Jacob