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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
act of writing in code or cipher
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: coding, secret writing, steganography
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: writing, committal to writing
Narrower terms: encoding, encryption, recoding, decoding, decryption, decipherment
the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptology
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: science, scientific discipline
Across languages
Translations
40 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Asturian:
criptografía
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Belarusian:
крыптагра́фія
(kryptahráfija)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Bulgarian:
криптография
(kriptografija)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Catalan:
criptografia
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Chinese Mandarin:
密碼學 /密码学
(mìmǎxué)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Cornish:
kelskrifonieth
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Czech:
kryptografie
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Danish:
kryptografi
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Dutch:
cryptografie
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Dutch:
geheimschrift
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Esperanto:
kriptografio
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Finnish:
kryptografia
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Finnish:
salakirjoitustaito
— discipline concerned with communication security
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French:
cryptographie
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Galician:
criptografía
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Georgian:
კრიპტოგრაფია
(ḳriṗṭograpia)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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German:
Kryptographie
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Greek:
κρυπτογραφία
(kryptografía)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Hindi:
गूढ़लेखन
(gūṛhlekhan)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Hungarian:
kriptográfia
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Icelandic:
dulritunarfræði
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Indonesian:
kriptografi
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Irish:
cripteagrafaíocht
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Italian:
crittografia
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Japanese:
暗号論
(angōron)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Korean:
암호학
(amhohak)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Latvian:
kriptogrāfija
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Macedonian:
криптографија
(kriptografija)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Malayalam:
ഗൂഢശാസ്ത്രം
(gūḍhaśāstraṁ)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Persian:
رمزنگاری
(ramz-negâri)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Polish:
kryptografia
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Portuguese:
criptografia
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Romanian:
criptografie
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Russian:
криптогра́фия
(kriptográfija)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Serbo-Croatian:
криптографија
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Serbo-Croatian:
kriptografija
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Spanish:
criptografía
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Swedish:
kryptografi
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Ukrainian:
криптогра́фія
(kryptohráfija)
— discipline concerned with communication security
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Yiddish:
קריפּטאָגראַפֿיע
(kriptografye)
— discipline concerned with communication security