Anticryptography

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher. rare, uncountable

    "We are considering not cryptography, but anticryptography, the design by a very intelligent civilization of a message so simple that even civilizations as primitive as ours can understand it."

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"We are considering not cryptography, but anticryptography, the design by a very intelligent civilization of a message so simple that even civilizations as primitive as ours can understand it."

Etymology

From anti- + cryptography.

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