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Decipher vs Anticryptography - What's the difference?

decipher | anticryptography |

As a verb decipher

is to decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text.

As a noun anticryptography is

(rare) the encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher.

decipher

English

Alternative forms

* decypher

Verb

(en verb)
  • To decode or decrypt a code or cipher to plain text.
  • To read text that is almost illegible or obscure.
  • To find a solution to a problem.

    • Derived terms

    * decipherment

    Related terms

    * decrypt

    Anagrams

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    anticryptography

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher.
  • * 1973 , Carl Sagan, The cosmic connection: an extraterrestrial perspective
    • We are considering not cryptography, but anticryptography , the design by a very intelligent civilization of a message so simple that even civilizations as primitive as ours can understand it.
  • * 2005 , Paul A LaViolette, Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice Age
    • It is common in the art of anticryptography to include a cross-check device with the coded message so that the recipient may reassure himself that he has properly deciphered and understood the message.