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Unit 4 - Databases, Compression and Encryption

Asymmetric encryption uses a public key to encrypt data and a separate private key to decrypt it. It is an encryption method that uses different keys for encryption and decryption.

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Unit 4 - Databases, Compression and Encryption

Asymmetric encryption uses a public key to encrypt data and a separate private key to decrypt it. It is an encryption method that uses different keys for encryption and decryption.

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ASYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION

• Encryption method that uses a public key to encrypt data and a


separate private key to decrypt it

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


COMPRESSION
• Reducing the size of a file

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


DATABASE NORMALISATION
• Formatting relational databases to reduce data redundancy

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


DICTIONARY CODING
• Compression method that uses short keys to represent longer
commonly recurring patterns

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


ENCRYPTION
• Altering data so that it can be understood only by its intended
recipient

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


ENTITY RELATIONSHIP MODELLING
• Showing the relationships between different objects

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


FIELD
• Property of an item stored in a database

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


FLAT FILE
• Type of database which contains only one table

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


FOREIGN KEY
• Field used in one table to represent the value of a primary key in a
related table

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


HASHING
• Calculating a key from a given value

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


INDEXING
• Linking values to keys so that they can be quickly accessed by
referring to their key

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


LOSSLESS COMPRESSION
• Method of reducing the size of a file without losing any of the original
data

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


LOSSY COMPRESSION
• Method of reducing the size of a file that discards some of the original
data

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


PRIMARY KEY
• Attribute in a table which uniquely identifies each record in that table

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


RELATIONAL DATABASE
• Database in which two or more tables are linked to each other

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


RUN LENGTH ENCODING
• Data compression method that converts sequences of identical
characters into a single value

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


SECONDARY KEY
• Non-unique key in a table that is used to quickly search for records in
that table

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


SQL
• Programming language designed for managing data in relational
database management systems

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption


SYMMETRIC ENCRYPTION
• Encryption method that uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt
data

A2 Computer Science keywords Databases, Compression and Encryption

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