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Cryptography vs Encryption - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between cryptography and encryption

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 encryption is the process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...

cryptography

English

(wikipedia cryptography)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • 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),
    • 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 cryptography

    Related terms

    * crypt * cryptology * cryptanalysis

    See also

    *

    encryption

    English

    (wikipedia encryption)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...

    • Related terms

    * encrypt * decrypt * cypher * PKI * public key * PGP