Just what is encryption?
Encryption is defined as “to conceal information or data in (something) by converting it into a code”.
Encryption simply means the data is “packaged” in such a way, that only the sender and receiver can decipher it.
Encryption, when browsing, simply means protecting sensitive information transmitted online. Only the sender and encrypter can know what is inside the encryption package, but that DOES NOT mean what’s inside is safe!
As an analogy, you may well want to securely package a valuable product, to ship it without loss by handling or theft. You use packaging with a concealed lock, and military grade duck tape to protect and hide the value of the package, the lock and package contents. The recipient can open the package because you sent the key to open the package separately. But no one else touching the package has the key, so they cannot access the package to reveal its contents.
Now, there are providers that say they use military grade encryption, or the highest rated form of encryption. The next time you hear that, just think of it as using the best duct tape on the package. It doesn’t make the package with a bomb inside any safer to open.
Any website that wants to send a virus to your device, can do so without or with encryption enabled, encryption does matter for safety.
Encryption has to do with the communications between devices, it does nothing to change the normal web browsing identification of connected devices to each other, or the identification of the communicating devices to those on the network.
