Draft National Encryption Policy, 2015

It aims to enable information security environment and secure transactions in Cyber Space for individuals, businesses, Government including nationally critical information systems and networks.

  • Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it. The purpose of encryption is to ensure that only somebody who is qualified to access data (e.g. a text message or a file) will be able to read it, using the decryption key