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CompTIA Security+ study material · question 251 of 611
A developer replaces sensitive identifiers with a reversible transformation and calls the data protected. What is the correct assessment?
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Answer: B. It is obfuscated, which makes it harder to read but does not make it secret
Obfuscation is listed beside encryption and hashing precisely because it offers a different and weaker guarantee.