cryptology
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From crypto- + -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”); originally after Latin cryptologia, which is apparently first recorded in an English context.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /kɹɪpˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /kɹɪpˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
- Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Noun
[edit]cryptology (usually uncountable, plural cryptologies)
- The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
- Meronyms: cryptography, cryptanalysis; encoding, decoding; encrypting, decrypting, decyphering
- The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
- Near-synonyms: cryptanalysis, decoding, decrypting, decyphering
- Secret or enigmatical language.
- 1991, English Studies:
- But the question of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
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See also
[edit]- cryptography, cryptanalysis, ciphertext, plaintext, cleartext, code, key
- Appendix:Glossary of cryptography
References
[edit]- ^ “cryptology, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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