cryptography

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.

Noun

  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.
    • Holonym: cryptology
    • We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven. - 1658, Sir Thomas Browne (first use in English)
    • [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. - 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and...

    Related: cryptanalysis

Origin

From crypto- + -graphy.

Forms

cryptographies

Wikipedia

Cryptography

Related

crypt cryptanalysis cryptographer cryptology

Derived

anticryptography asymmetric cryptography cryptographic elliptic-curve cryptography public-key cryptography quantum cryptography