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proprietary (i.e., encrypted data)
This incorrectly equates proprietary data with encrypted data. “Proprietary” means company-confidential or privately owned information, while “encrypted” means data transformed with cryptography.
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The parenthetical uses “i.e.” to say that proprietary data is encrypted data, but those are different concepts.
- Proprietary information is information associated with a company’s products, business, or activities that is identified and protected as company-confidential or trade-secret material.
- Encryption is a cryptographic transformation that turns plaintext into ciphertext.
A dataset can be proprietary without being encrypted, and encrypted data does not have to be proprietary. Because the article presents these terms as equivalent, that part of the statement is factually incorrect.
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- proprietary information (PROPIN) - Glossary | CSRC
Material and information relating to or associated with a company's products, business, or activities ... properly marked by the company as proprietary information, trade secrets, or company confidential information.
- encryption - Glossary | CSRC
The cryptographic transformation of data to produce ciphertext.
- 31 CFR § 800.216 - Encrypted data | Legal Information Institute
The term encrypted data means data to which National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-allowed cryptographic techniques ... have been applied.