Cryptography: Understanding the General Concepts

Cryptography has a tight relationship with other architectural domains, such as integration and identity and access management (IAM). It also has strong relationships with data. As a Salesforce Architect, you need to have a general understanding of the value of cryptography and different types of cryptography algorithms and a high-level understanding of the process. This will help you understand the intricacies of the day-to-day activities that take place in Salesforce implementation projects, such as securing an integration channel using Transport Layer Security (TLS) or two-way TLS (also known as mutual authentication), or how authentication tokens are digitally signed.

Encryption is the process of converting original readable data (also known as plaintext) into a form that cannot be read by unauthorized parties (also known as ciphertext). Encryption is not a method of preventing others from interfering with data; rather, it is...