Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The process or skill of communicating in or deciphering secret writings or ciphers.
- n. Secret writing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act or art of writing in secret characters.
- n. A system of secret or occult characters; that which is written in cipher.
Wiktionary
- n. The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code.
- n. The science which studies methods for encoding messages so that they can be read only by a person who knows the secret information required for decoding, called the key; it includes cryptanalysis, the science of decoding encrypted messages without possessing the proper key, and has several other branches; see for example steganography.
WordNet 3.0
- n. act of writing in code or cipher
- n. the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
Examples
““The cryptography is simply not fit for purpose,” security consultant Adam Laurie told the Telegraph.”
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“He also relates his subsequent work in cryptography with Steve Pohlig (the Pohlig-Hellman system) and others.”
“This approach is the brainchild of Silvio Micali, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleague Ronald L. Rivest, a professor who is well known in cryptography circles as one of the technologists behind the creation of RSA Security, a global Internet security company.”
“In security terms, he explained, cryptography is classed as a protective counter-measure.”
“Defenders of PGP and other forms of encryption rallied behind Zimmerman and made his case a cause célèbre, arguing that the expression of ideas in cryptography, like any other form of expression, is protected by the First Amendment.”
“PyPI package index alone has about 50 'cryptography'-tagged entries.”
“Characters as Alan Turing, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, Leonard Adleman, Phil Zimmermann, Whitfield Diffie e Martin Hellman appear when modern cryptography is described.”
“At any rate, the asymmetry of one-way functions is a pretty powerful concept in cryptography, as well as other fields, but it’s by no means universal … salient”
“But you can solve the problem by using public-key cryptography, which is the kind of encryption you see on the Internet.”
“We need password cryptography, not the re-used ones we tend to type ...”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cryptography’.
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G[r]eek
A collection of words found in English that are either purely Greek or have Greek etymology.
Please add with caution and certainty. Will be regularly updated by me.etymology, philosophy, laconic, disharmony, patriarchic, archaic, phlogiston, aether, aeon, angel, arachnid, rhythm and 322 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 1073 more...
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Cryptography, etc.
Codes, ciphers, and other words related to secret ways of communicating. See also Keeping Secrets, a list by oroboros.
cryptography, steganography, code, cipher, substitution cipher, secret code, decoder ring, encryption, code word, code name, password, atbash and 31 more...
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crypto-, crypt-
concealed; secret
cryptogram, crypto-fascist, cryptosporidium, cryptography, cryptic
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