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encipherment

n. The act or process of enciphering; encryption

Usage examples of "encipherment".

The actual encipherment was usually performed by Gilbert Curll, her trusted secretary, less often by Jacques Nau, another secretary.

Both the forgery and the encipherment in the correct key seem to be the work of Phelippes.

Secondly, encipherment by digraphs halves the number of elements available for frequency analysis.

Principles of attack on enciphered code when the book is known but the system of encipherment unknown.

Since encipherment and decipherment were reciprocal, the same arrangement served for both.

Rather it was the assimilation of encipherment into the overall communication process.

As for the encipherment in Yiddish transliteration, the SS here would penetrate the poor mask instantly.

Since that directive was issued, as you know, the state of the art in encipherment has gone into orbit.

Even without his generals' predilection for partial encipherments, the Napoleonic cryptograms must have crumpled before the assault of the Russian cryptanalysts.

What's really clever is that the system is based on an independent input signal that's unique to the individual transmission-over and above the encipherment algorithm that's already built into the system.