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Cryptography

/[kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː]/ noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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

    "Holonym: cryptology"

  2. 2
    act of writing in code or cipher wordnet
  3. 3
    the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms wordnet

Etymology

From crypto- + -graphy.

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