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krip'tâgrufee
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cryptograph,
Cryptographal,
cryptographer,
cryptographic,
cryptographical,
cryptographically,
Cryptographist
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- [n] act of writing in code or cipher
- [n] the science of analyzing
and
deciphering
codes
and
ciphers
and
cryptograms
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coding, cryptanalysis,
cryptanalytics,
cryptology,
secret
writing |
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committal
to writing, decipherment,
decoding,
decryption,
encoding,
encryption,
recoding,
science,
scientific
discipline, writing |
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| Webster's 1913
Dictionary |
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\Cryp*tog"ra*phy\ (-f?), n. [Cf. F. cryptographie.]
The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret
characters, or cipher.
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| Computing
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The practise and study of encryption
and decryption
- encoding data so that it can only be decoded by specific individuals.
A system for encrypting and decrypting data is a cryptosystem. These
usually involve an algorithm
for combining the original data ("plaintext")
with one or more "keys" - numbers or strings of characters known only
to the sender and/or recipient. The resulting output is known as "ciphertext".
The
security of a cryptosystem usually depends on the secrecy of (some of)
the keys rather than with the supposed secrecy of the algorithm.
A strong cryptosystem has a large range of possible keys so that it is
not possible to just try all possible keys (a "brute
force"
approach). A strong cryptosystem will produce ciphertext which appears
random to all standard statistical tests. A strong cryptosystem will
resist all known previous methods for breaking codes ("cryptanalysis").
See also cryptology,
public-key
encryption, RSA.
Usenet
newsgroups: news:sci.crypt,
news:sci.crypt.research.
FAQ
MIT.
Cryptography
glossary.
RSA
cryptography glossary.
Cryptography,
PGP, and Your Privacy.
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cryptography |
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cipher,
code,
coded
message, coup de
plume, criticism,
cryptanalysis,
cryptoanalysis,
cryptoanalytics,
cryptogram,
cryptograph,
cryptographer,
cryptology,
diagnostics,
engrossment,
epigraphy,
exegetics,
hermeneutics,
ink
spilling, inkslinging,
inscription,
invisible
ink, lettering,
lexicography,
literary
criticism, macrography,
metoposcopy,
micrography,
oneirology,
paleography,
pathognomy,
pen, pen-and-ink,
pencil
driving, physiognomics,
physiognomy,
scrivenery,
scrivening,
secret
language, secret
writing, semeiology,
semeiotics,
sympathetic
ink, symptomatology,
textual
criticism, tropology,
typewriting,
typing,
writing |
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