OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 4359

cryptography

[kɹ̥ɪpˈtʰɒɡɹəfiː]
Meanings (ES + gloss)
criptografía
The discipline that embodies the principles, means, and methods for transforming data to hide its semantic content, prevent unauthorized use, or detect modifications, while also ensuring information security through confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and nonrepudiation.
Holonym: cryptology
We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.
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