cryptography
/krɪpˈtɒɡrəfi
/noun [mass noun]
The art of writing or solving codes.Mathematical cryptography, as bad as it sometimes is, is the strongest link in most security chains....
- There are claims about breakthrough technology and totally new cryptography and the like.
- A new kind of cryptography based on quantum physics is now ready for serious consideration.
Derivatives
cryptographer
/ noun ...- All over the world, cryptographers are trying to unlock Kryptos, a coded message of fiendish complexity that stands inscribed on a sculpture on the grounds of the CIA's headquarters.
- Physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, cryptographers, engineers, biotechnologists - large numbers of scientists from all these fields contribute directly or indirectly to the development of weapons.
- Modern cryptographers have embraced this principle, calling anything else ‘security by obscurity.’
cryptographic
/ adjective ...- As you probably know, it works in a cryptographic fashion.
- The descriptions of cryptographic techniques earlier in the book are longer and more lucid while those towards the end of the book seem rushed.
- Physical and cryptographic keys are regularly rotated to limit the duration of exposure in case of a breach.
cryptographically
- The service runs on a cryptographically secured, fault-tolerant cluster of over a dozen servers in two near-military-grade secure Internet facilities in San Diego and San Jose.
- Storage security solutions must provide the ability to cryptographically compartmentalise data on shared devices or networks, and customise access controls and security requirements for each ‘vault.’
- They present each other with their respective certificates and cryptographically verify that those certificates were signed by your organization's certificate authority.
Rhymes
- the Passion
- the path of least resistance
- the patter of tiny feet
- the pen is mightier than the sword
- the Pennines
- the penny dropped
- the People
- the pit of one's (or the) stomach
- the plot thickens
- the Plough
- the Poconos
- the point of no return
- the poor man's ——
- the Pope
- the pot calling the kettle black
- the Potteries
- the powers that be
- the Premiership
- the Primary
- the Principality
- moccasin game
- moccasin rubber
- moccasin telegraph
- moccasin track
- moch