Cryptography
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.
Equivalents
24 more languages
العربيةالكتابة المشفّرة
Catalàcriptografia
Češtinakryptografie
Ελληνικάκρυπτογραφία
Esperantokriptografio
فارسیرمزنگاری
Gaeilgecripteagrafaíocht
Magyarkriptográfia
Bahasa Indonesiakriptografi
Íslenskadulritunarfræði
Italianocrittografia
日本語暗号論
한국어암호학
Македонскикриптографија
Polskikryptografia
Portuguêscriptografia
Românăcriptografie
Русскийкриптография
Svenskakryptografi
Türkçekriptografi
Українськакриптографія
Tiếng Việtmật mã học
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.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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