The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cypris \Cy"pris\ (s?"pr?s), n.; pl. Cyprides (s?p"r?-d?z). [L. Cypris, the Cyprian goddess Venus, Gr. Ky`pris. See Cyprian.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small, bivalve, fresh-water Crustacea, belonging to the Ostracoda; also, a member of this genus.
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CYPRIS ( cryptographic RISC microprocessor) was a cryptographic module developed by the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories. The device was designed to implement NSA encryption algorithms and had a similar intent to the AIM and Sierra crypto modules. However, the principal references date back to the late 1990s and it does not appear that the CYPRIS ever earned NSA's Type 1 certification, without which it could not be used to protect classified government traffic.
CYPRIS was designed to address the cryptographic requirements of military software radios and wireless systems. Designed under an NSA contract, CYPRIS was optimized to implement a variety of legacy COMSEC and TRANSEC algorithms while enabling field upgrades to new and emerging INFOSEC algorithms. CYPRIS contains a high performance RISC core, a reconfigurable hardware unit, and a suite of programmable and automatic system check features. Unprogrammed, CYPRIS is an unclassified, non CCI, exportable device; when programmed it assumes the classification of its software. Over 20 core cryptoalgorithms were developed on CYPRIS.
Cypris is a name for Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love.
Cypris may also refer to:
Usage examples of "cypris".
Oh garlands on the doorposts that I pass, Woven of asters and of autumn leaves, I make a prayer for you: Cypris be kind, That every lover may be given love.
But the counsel of the baneful goddess Cypris was working out its accomplishment, who brought upon them soul destroying infatuation.
For Cypris stirred in them a sweet desire, for the sake of Hephaestus of many counsels, in order that Lemnos might be again inhabited by men and not be ruined.
And Cypris made her heart faint, and in her confusion she could scarcely gather her spirit back to her.
So she said, and starting forth they came to the mighty palace of Cypris, which her husband, the halt-footed god, had built for her when first he brought her from Zeus to be his wife.
And Cypris went on her way through the glens of Olympus to find her boy.
Quickly would they have robbed him of his return then and there, but the goddess that rules Eryx, Cypris, in pity snatched him away, while yet in the eddies, and graciously meeting him saved him to dwell on the Lilybean height.
Among those special chips is the CYPRIS microprocessor, designed to operate at 40 megahertz and able to obtain nearly 35 MIPS (million instructions per second).