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How to pronounce cryptography in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptology
Type of scientific discipline, science
Derivation cryptographer, cryptographical
Type Words
Synonyms coding, secret writing, steganography
Type of committal to writing, writing
Has types decipherment, decryption, encoding, encryption, recoding, decoding
Derivation cryptographer, cryptographical

Examples of cryptography

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Hacking commercial quantum cryptography systems by tailored bright illumination.
From the sciencedaily.com
The traditional inefficiency of factorisation underpins much moden cryptography.
From the newscientist.com
Complete course in cryptography offered at Cornell in the form of lecture notes.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Cryptologia is a journal in cryptography published quarterly since January 1977.
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In recent decades, the field of cryptography has expanded its remit in two ways.
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Symmetric-key cryptography is to be contrasted with asymmetric-key cryptography.
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Such states had long been considered to be of little use in quantum cryptography.
From the sciencedaily.com
Until the 1970s, public key cryptography was just an intriguing theoretical idea.
From the forbes.com
The revolutionary implications are for communications, especially cryptography.
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  • Cryptanalysis: the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
  • Act of writing in code or cipher
  • Cryptography or cryptology (from Greek u03BAu03C1u03C5u03C0u03C4u03CCu03C2 kryptu00F3s, "hidden, secret"; and u03B3u03C1u03ACu03C6u03B5u03B9u03BD graphein, "writing", or -u03BBu03BFu03B3u03AFu03B1 -logia, "study", respectively) is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties called adversaries...
  • (Cryptographers) See also: for an exhaustive list.
  • 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
  • (cryptographer) A person who is an expert on creating codes and cyphers. Someone who studies cryptology
  • (Cryptographic) Pertaining to, or concerned with, cryptography.
  • (Cryptographic) Related to cryptography which is (i) The mathematical science used to secure the confidentiality and authentication of data by replacing it with a transformed version that can be reconverted to reveal the original data only by someone holding the proper cryptographic algorithm ...
  • (cryptographic) Referring to the security of information based on encoding messages in such a way that they cannot be decoded without special, private, and hard-to-acquire information.