[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cryptography \cryptog"raphy\ -f?, n. cf. f. cryptographie.
   1. the act or art of writing in code or secret characters;
      also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages
      written in a secret code.
      1913 webster +pjc

   2. the science which studies methods for encoding messages so
      that they can be read only by a person who knows the
      secret information required for decoding, called the key;
      it includes cryptanalysis, the science of decoding
      encrypted messages without possessing the proper key, and
      has several other branches; see for example
      steganography.
      pjc
see also:
cryptanalysis steganography 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cryptography
     n 1: the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers
          and cryptograms syn: cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics,
           cryptology
     2: act of writing in code or cipher syn: coding, secret
        writing
see also:
cryptanalysis cryptanalytics cryptology coding secret writing 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

48 moby thesaurus words for "cryptography":
   cipher, code, coded message, coup de plume, criticism,
   cryptanalysis, cryptoanalysis, cryptoanalytics, cryptogram,
   cryptograph, cryptographer, cryptology, diagnostics, engrossment,
   epigraphy, exegetics, hermeneutics, ink spilling, inkslinging,
   inscription, invisible ink, lettering, lexicography,
   literary criticism, macrography, metoposcopy, micrography,
   oneirology, paleography, pathognomy, pen, pen-and-ink,
   pencil driving, physiognomics, physiognomy, scrivenery, scrivening,
   secret language, secret writing, semeiology, semeiotics,
   sympathetic ink, symptomatology, textual criticism, tropology,
   typewriting, typing, writing

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

cryptography
     
         the practise and study of encryption and
        decryption - encoding data so that it can only be decoded by
        specific individuals.  a system for encrypting and decrypting
        data is a cryptosystem.  these usually involve an algorithm
        for combining the original data "plaintext" with one or
        more "keys" - numbers or strings of characters known only to
        the sender and/or recipient.  the resulting output is known as
        "ciphertext".
     
        the security of a cryptosystem usually depends on the secrecy
        of some of the keys rather than with the supposed secrecy of
        the algorithm.  a strong cryptosystem has a large range of
        possible keys so that it is not possible to just try all
        possible keys a "brute force" approach.  a strong
        cryptosystem will produce ciphertext which appears random to
        all standard statistical tests.  a strong cryptosystem will
        resist all known previous methods for breaking codes
        "cryptanalysis".
     
        see also cryptology, public-key encryption, rsa.
     
        usenet newsgroups: news:sci.crypt,
        news:sci.crypt.research.
     
        faq mit
        ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/cryptography-faq/.
     
        cryptography glossary
        http://www.io.com/~ritter/glossary.htmbruteforceattack.
     
        rsa cryptography glossary
        http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/faq/glossary.html.
     
        cryptography, pgp, and your privacy
        http://draco.centerline.com:8080/~franl/crypto.html.
     
        2000-01-16
     
     
see also:
encryption decryption algorithm plaintext ciphertext brute force 
cryptanalysis cryptology public-key encryption rsa usenet 
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