Thread: Networking asymmetric vs symmetric encryption

hello all,
I am an IT student I have just took admission in my degree college Although I have many subjects programming like C language SQL C++ and Microprocessors my liking in network. I have a subject called as internet security in my third semester but I am interested in networking than these programming stuffs so I just wanted to acknowledge that how this encryption is done and what are the categories of encryption???

An encryption algorithm is mathematical action where plaintext is changed to a code so called ciphertext, inexplicable to anybody who is unaware of the key to decode it. Encryption algorithms have their ancestry from Greek history and until the arrival of computing have encrypted data been the area of the forces and military . Now encryption is also used for safe online banking and many more information technology stuffs.