Symmetric Encryption means both sides can access the data. It's different from using a hash (like MD5 or the stronger SHA series) in that it can be reversed giv

Symmetric Encryption means both sides can access the data. It's different from using a hash (like MD5 or the stronger SHA series) in that it can be reversed given the key. Ouch... that's oversimplified... Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric-key_algorithm http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/cse207/w-se.pdf http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/cse207/w-se.pdf