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Cryptography

Noun CEFR C1
[kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː]

Definitions

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.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Françaiscryptographie
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Examples

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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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