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Meaning of Cryptography | Babel Free

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

Català criptografia
Čeština kryptografie
Deutsch Kryptographie
Ελληνικά κρυπτογραφία
Esperanto kriptografio
Español criptografía
فارسی رمزنگاری
Français cryptographie
Magyar kriptográfia
Bahasa Indonesia kriptografi
Íslenska dulritunarfræði
Italiano crittografia
日本語 暗号論
한국어 암호학
Македонски криптографија
Polski kryptografia
Português criptografia
Română criptografie
Русский криптография
Svenska kryptografi
Türkçe kriptografi
Українська криптографія
Tiếng Việt mật 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.
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