CRYPTOGRAPHY meaning: Science of secure communication techniques

We found 42 dictionaries that define the word cryptography:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

cryptography: Merriam-Webster
cryptography: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
cryptography: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
cryptography: Collins English Dictionary
cryptography: Vocabulary.com
Cryptography, cryptography: Wordnik
cryptography: Wiktionary
cryptography: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
cryptography: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
cryptography: Infoplease Dictionary
cryptography: Dictionary.com
Cryptography: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Cryptography: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
cryptography: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
cryptography: Rhymezone
Cryptography: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
cryptography: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
cryptography: FreeDictionary.org
cryptography: Mnemonic Dictionary
cryptography: TheFreeDictionary.com
cryptography: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Cryptography: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms
cryptography: Legal dictionary
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Computing (9 matching dictionaries)

cryptography: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
cryptography: CCI Computer
Internet Terms (No longer online)
Cryptography: Linktionary Networking Glossary
Webopedia (No longer online)
cryptography: Hacking Lexicon
Technopedia (No longer online)
cryptography: Encyclopedia
Internet Terms (No longer online)

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

Cryptography: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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Cryptography: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Cryptography: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
cryptography: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

cryptography: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

cryptography: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.

Opposite:

decryption, plaintext, unscrambling

Types:

symmetric-key, public-key, hash function, digital signature, key exchange, more...

Phrases:

Quantum cryptography, asymmetric cryptography, public key cryptography, private key cryptography, public-key cryptography, more...

Adjectives:

key, public, symmetric, asymmetric, quantum, strong, modern, elliptic, secret, based, private

Colors:

black, green, blue, purple, gold, more...

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