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Decryption vs Deciphering - What's the difference?

decryption | deciphering |

As nouns the difference between decryption and deciphering

is that decryption is the process reversing an encryption, ie the process which converts encrypted data into its original form while deciphering is decipherment.

As a verb deciphering is

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decryption

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The process reversing an encryption, i.e. the process which converts encrypted data into its original form.

    • Synonyms

    * codebreaking

    Antonyms

    * encryption

    Related terms

    * decrypt

    See also

    * to decipher

    deciphering

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • decipherment
  • * 1862 , Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of Letters, Despatches, and State Papers Relating ...
    • The only request I have to make with regard to such persons as desire to judge for themselves is, not to test the accuracy of my decipherings by the English translations.