Cryptography vs Cryptograph - What's the difference?
cryptography | cryptograph |
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),
A cipher or cryptogram.
A device used for encrypting or (l) text.
As nouns the difference between cryptography and cryptograph
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 cryptograph is a cipher or cryptogram.As a verb cryptograph is
to write text using a code or cipher.cryptography
English
(wikipedia cryptography)Noun
(en-noun)- 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 cryptographySee also
*cryptograph
English
Noun
(en noun)- Decipherers of cryptograph . — J. Earle.