cryptography : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: cryptography	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for cryptography
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cryptography n the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms Synonym(s): cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology act of writing in code or cipher Synonym(s): cryptography, coding, secret writing, steganography
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cryptography \Cryptog"raphy\ (-f?), n. [Cf. F. cryptographie.] The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
cryptography The practise and study of {encryption} and {decryption} - encoding data so that it can only be decoded by specific individuals. A system for encrypting and decrypting data is a cryptosystem. These usually involve an {algorithm} for combining the original data ("{plaintext}") with one or more "keys" - numbers or strings of characters known only to the sender and/or recipient. The resulting output is known as "{ciphertext}". The security of a cryptosystem usually depends on the secrecy of (some of) the keys rather than with the supposed secrecy of the {algorithm}. A strong cryptosystem has a large range of possible keys so that it is not possible to just try all possible keys (a "{brute force}" approach). A strong cryptosystem will produce ciphertext which appears random to all standard statistical tests. A strong cryptosystem will resist all known previous methods for breaking codes ("{cryptanalysis}"). See also {cryptology}, {public-key encryption}, {RSA}. {Usenet} newsgroups: {news:sci.crypt}, {news:sci.crypt.research}. {FAQ} {MIT (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/cryptography-faq/)}. {Cryptography glossary (http://www.io.com/~ritter/GLOSSARY.HTM#BruteForceAttack)}. {RSA cryptography glossary (http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/glossary.html)}. {Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy (http://draco.centerline.com:8080/~franl/crypto.html)}. (2000-01-16)