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Cryptography

noun
1.
The science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms.  Synonyms: cryptanalysis, cryptanalytics, cryptology.
2.
Act of writing in code or cipher.  Synonyms: coding, secret writing, steganography.






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"Cryptography" Quotes from Famous Books



... — N. concealment; hiding &c v.; occultation, mystification. seal of secrecy; screen &c 530; disguise &c 530; masquerade; masked battery; hiding place &c 530; cryptography, steganography^; freemasonry. stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness; obreption^; slyness &c (cunning) 702. latitancy^, latitation^; seclusion &c 893; privacy, secrecy, secretness^; incognita. reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee [Fr.], suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... which neither Joam Dacosta nor his people could have anticipated. In fact, as those who have not forgotten the first scene in this story are aware, the document was written in a disguised form in one of the numerous systems used in cryptography. ...
— Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon • Jules Verne



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