cryptography
noun[kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː] · /kɹɪpˈtɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
Etymology From crypto- + -graphy.
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Usually 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.
- Holonym: cryptology
- We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.1658, Sir Thomas Browne (first use in English)
1 more example
- [A] man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025:
- Derived terms
- anticryptography, asymmetric cryptography, cryptographic, elliptic-curve cryptography, public-key cryptography, quantum cryptography
- Related terms
- crypt, cryptanalysis, cryptographer, cryptology