'Cryptography' definitions:
Definition of 'cryptography'
From: WordNet
noun
The science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms [syn: cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology]
noun
Definition of 'Cryptography'
From: GCIDE
- Cryptography \Cryp*tog"ra*phy\ (-f?), n. [Cf. F. cryptographie.]
- 1. The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- 2. The science which studies methods for encoding messages so that they can be read only by a person who knows the secret information required for decoding, called the key; it includes cryptanalysis, the science of decoding encrypted messages without possessing the proper key, and has several other branches; see for example steganography. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'cryptography'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- cipher,
- code,
- coded message,
- coup de plume,
- criticism,
- cryptanalysis,
- cryptoanalysis,
- cryptoanalytics,
- cryptogram,
- cryptograph,
- cryptographer,
- cryptology,
- diagnostics,
- engrossment,
- epigraphy,
- exegetics,
- hermeneutics,
- ink spilling,
- inkslinging,
- inscription,
- invisible ink,
- lettering,
- lexicography,
- literary criticism,
- macrography,
- metoposcopy,
- micrography,
- oneirology,
- paleography,
- pathognomy,
- pen,
- pen-and-ink,
- pencil driving,
- physiognomics,
- physiognomy,
- scrivenery,
- scrivening,
- secret language,
- secret writing,
- semeiology,
- semeiotics,
- sympathetic ink,
- symptomatology,
- textual criticism,
- tropology,
- typewriting,
- typing,
- writing