What does ということ mean here?


> それは、この世の全ての暗号を無意味にできるということ  
>  It means that it can render all the encryptions of the world useless

What does it mean in this context and what usage of it is being used? Is it
"means x)"?




ということ works as a nominalizer to a sentence, roughly corresponding to the
English _that_.

So it literally translates _It is that it is possible to make all the
encryptions in this world useless_.

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More grammatically you can think there is です omitted at the end. それは、...ということ
**です**. Or in this context ということ **を意味します** , in which case it literally
translates _It means that ..._.

