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Encoding vs Anticryptography - What's the difference?

encoding | anticryptography |

As nouns the difference between encoding and anticryptography

is that encoding is (computing) the way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, eg in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text while anticryptography is (rare) the encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher.

As a verb encoding

is .

encoding

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text.
  • A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).

    • Derived terms

    * font encoding * input encoding

    See also

    * Unicode * *

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-journal , year=1988 , date=1 March 1988 , author= , title=Isolation and analysis of the gene encoding peripheral myelin protein zero , journal=Neuron citation
    • , passage=We have isolated the gene encoding the Schwann cell glycoprotein P0, the major structural protein of the peripheral myelin sheath.}}

    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.