Information is wealth, and an important way to protect it is encryption. End-to-end (E2E) encryption in particular protects information in a way that has transformed human rights organisations’, law-enforcement agencies’, and technology companies’ outlook on their ability to access and use information about individuals to protect, prosecute or profit from them, as the case may be.
What is encryption?
Fundamentally, encryption is the act of changing some consumable information into an unconsumable form based on some rules. There are different kinds of such rules.