cryptography

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation.

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cryptography cryptographies

From crypto- + -graphy.

cryptanalysis crypt cryptographer cryptology

anticryptography asymmetric cryptography cryptographic elliptic-curve cryptography public-key cryptography quantum cryptography

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