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Cryptography vs Cryptoanalysis - What's the difference?

cryptography | cryptoanalysis |

As nouns the difference between cryptography and cryptoanalysis

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 cryptoanalysis is alternative form of cryptanalysis.

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

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    cryptoanalysis

    English

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