This invention is computerized process for improving a computer’s asymmetric and symmetric encryption capabilities that results in up to eight times --8X--larger effective key size, higher data confidentiality, substantially greater security level, and increased data protection without encrypting any data bit more than once. This is accomplished by padding plaintext, transforming padded plaintext bytes into eight partitions, where each partition holds the bits from a common bit position in padded plaintext bytes, independently encrypting each partition using a cipher, key, key size, and padding all of which may differ between partitions and other cipher parameters required for the cipher to operate and/or necessary to meet encryption objectives. The encrypted partitions are combined to form ciphertext. Decryption essentially reverses the process, where the ciphertext is partitioned, each partition decrypted, decrypted partitions reverse transformed to create an array of padded plaintext, and padding is removed to form plaintext.