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by DougBTX 739 days ago
"At rest" is used to contrast with "in flight", where the data is being transferred between computers. So data "in flight" is protected by HTTPS etc, once it has been transferred it is "at rest" on the destination computer (even if that computer is still online).
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Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining. This is much clearer.