anticryptography

The encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher.

Noun

  1. The encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher.
    • We are considering not cryptography, but anticryptography, the design by a very intelligent civilization of a message so simple that even civilizations as primitive as ours can understand it. - 1973, Carl Sagan, The...
    • It is common in the art of anticryptography to include a cross-check device with the coded message so that the recipient may reassure himself that he has properly deciphered and understood the message. - 2005, Paul A...

Origin

From anti- + cryptography.