cryptography — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

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.

   Uso

   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Parole correlate

   cryptcryptanalysiscryptographercryptology

   Esempi

   Holonym: cryptology

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

   Altri esempi (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.

Sostantivo

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

   Sinonimi

   cryptanalysiscryptanalyticscryptology

   Termini più generali

   sciencescientific discipline

2. act of writing in code or cipher

   Sinonimi

   codingsecret writingsteganography

   Termini più generali

   writingcommittal to writing