cryptography
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cryptography (usually uncountable, plural cryptographies)
- The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne (first use in English):
- We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.
- 1658, Sir Thomas Browne (first use in English):
Usage notes
- Subfields include encoding, decoding, cryptanalysis, codes, ciphers, etc.
- In many languages, though less so in English, cognates to "cryptology" are also used with the meaning given above, and even preferred.
- Related to cryptography but distinct, steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no-one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message.
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discipline concerned with communication security
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