cryptography

Definition

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.

Etymology

From crypto- + -graphy.

Example Sentences

• "Holonym: cryptology"
• "We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven."
• "[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."

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