Intermodal transport (or intermodal transportation) involves the use of more than one mode of transport for a journey. See: Intermodal passenger transport; Intermodal freight transport
Encryption algorithms At the heart of every encrypted application is the algorithm, the math that scrambles and unscrambles data. In a nutshell, an encryption algorithm is a function which takes a string of data bytes and returns a new dataset containing unintelligible content. The same algorithm is used to decrypt data, which means encrypted data goes in from one side and the original data comes out the other.
(1) Short for Advanced Encryption Standard, a symmetric 128- bit block data encryption technique developed by Belgian cryptographers Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen. The U.S government adopted the algorithm as its encryption technique in October 2000, replacing the DES encryption it used.