Cryptography
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation [kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː] · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cryptography is a noun meaning 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.
Meaning
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.
Example Sentences
Holonym: cryptology
We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.
[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.
Word Forms
- cryptographies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include encryption, encrypt, cryptographic, encrypted, cipher, coding.
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