ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

On-the-fly encryption

Alright kiddo, sometimes we want to keep our secrets safe from bad guys who might try to steal them. One way we can do that is by using something called encryption.

Encryption is like turning your secrets into a secret code that only you and your friends can understand. But sometimes we need to be able to send messages that are already encrypted, without having to spend time and effort encoding them first.

That's where on-the-fly encryption comes in. It's like a magic power that instantly turns your messages into secret codes as you send them. This way, even if someone tries to intercept the message, all they'll see is a confusing jumble of letters and numbers that's impossible to make sense of.

Think of it like a secret agent who has a gadget that instantly turns everything they say into a different language, so that no one else can understand what they're saying. It's like that, but with our messages and secret codes instead of different languages.

So, on-the-fly encryption helps keep our secrets safe and makes it easy to send encrypted messages without having to do extra work. Pretty cool, huh?