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Decrypt vs Decrypter - What's the difference?

decrypt | decrypter |

Decrypter is a related term of decrypt.



As nouns the difference between decrypt and decrypter

is that decrypt is a decoded communication while decrypter is a thing, such as an algorithm, a program, or a device, that decrypts.

As a verb decrypt

is to convert an encrypted or coded text or message into plain text.

decrypt

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To convert an encrypted or coded text or message into plain text.

    • Antonyms

    * encrypt

    Related terms

    * decipher

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A decoded communication.
  • * 1979 , Francis Harry Hinsley, British Intelligence in the Second World War (page 182)
    • The decrypts were being obtained from the traffic of 78 German stations by the end of 1941, and of 147 stations by the end of 1942.

    decrypter

    English

    Alternative forms

    * decryptor

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thing, such as an algorithm, a program, or a device, that decrypts.

    • Antonyms

    * (thing that decrypts) encrypter

    Related terms

    * decrypt * decryption