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Cryptography vs Cryptocurrency - What's the difference?

cryptography | cryptocurrency |

As nouns the difference between cryptography and cryptocurrency

is that cryptography is 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 while cryptocurrency is a virtual currency based on a cryptographic system.

cryptography

English

(wikipedia cryptography)

Noun

(en-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.
  • * 1658: , (first use in English),
    • We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.

    Usage notes

    * Subfields include encoding]], [[decode, decoding, cryptanalysis, codes, ciphers, etc. * In many languages, though less so in English, cognates to "cryptology" are also used with the meaning given above, and even preferred. * Related to cryptography but distinct, steganography is the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no-one apart from the sender and intended recipient even realizes there is a hidden message.

    Derived terms

    * anticryptography * asymmetric cryptography * public-key cryptography

    Related terms

    * crypt * cryptology * cryptanalysis

    See also

    *

    cryptocurrency

    English

    Noun

    (cryptocurrencies)
  • A virtual currency based on a cryptographic system