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The making and cracking of codes
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cryptography
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Word definitions for cryptography in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms [syn: cryptanalysis , cryptanalytics , cryptology ] act of writing in code or cipher [syn: coding , secret writing ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cryptography \Cryp*tog"ra*phy\ (-f?), n. [Cf. F. cryptographie.] The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code. the science which studies methods for encoding messages ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French cryptographie or directly from Modern Latin cryptographia , from Greek kryptos "hidden" (see crypt ) + -graphy . Related: Cryptograph ; cryptographer .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And anyone communicating by quantum cryptography also would have a sure way to spot spies. ▪ Clearly, one advantage of public-key cryptography is that no one can figure out the private key from the corresponding public key. ▪ ...
Usage examples of cryptography.
His success cemented his attachment to cryptanalysis, and he followed this demonstration of the low estate of high-level cryptography with a 100-page memorandum on the solution of American diplomatic codes.
Gruppen II and III into Hauptgruppe a for cryptography, Gruppen IV and V into Hauptgruppe b for cryptanalysis, each with its own head who reported to Kettler.
Instead of interesting the readers, it evidently destroyed even the slightest desire to read the epitaphs, for soon after the funerary cryptography was begun, it was abandoned.
This list encompassed, for the first time in cryptography, both transposition and substitution ciphers.
They looked instead to that neglected child of cryptography, the cipher.
More ideas came from army officers who had studied cryptography in the courses in signal communication that the national military academies, such as St.
Moreover, cryptography still functions through a hierarchy and employs a multitude of special systems.
The telegraph thereby furnished cryptography with the structure and the content that it still has.
The sentence is pregnant with most of the requirements that have come to be demanded of systems of military cryptography, requirements such as simplicity, reliability, rapidity, and so on.
He was on the side of the angels, but a practical field cipher that is unbreakable was not possible in his day, nor is it today, and so military cryptography has settled for field ciphers that delay but do not defeat cryptanalysis.
Kerckhoffs merely published his perceptions of the problems facing post-telegraph cryptography and his prescriptions for resolving them, he would have assured a place for himself in the pantheon of cryptology.
The army at the same time prepared, through a Military Cryptography Commission, for the solution of enciphered German radio messages.
Kerckhoffs accurately regarded it as an auxiliary to cryptography, a means to the end of perfecting military codes and ciphers.
He freed a fundamental process in cryptography from the shackles of time and error.
His great contribution was to bring to cryptography the automation that had benefited mankind so much in so many fields of endeavor.