cryptography — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. 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.

   Gebrauch

   • nicht zählbar
   • usually

   Verwandte Wörter

   cryptcryptanalysiscryptographercryptology

   Beispiele

   Holonym: cryptology

   We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   [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.

Substantiv

1. the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms

   Synonyme

   cryptanalysiscryptanalyticscryptology

   Oberbegriffe

   sciencescientific discipline

2. act of writing in code or cipher

   Synonyme

   codingsecret writingsteganography

   Oberbegriffe

   writingcommittal to writing