Synonyms for cryptography
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Cryptology
2. Steganography
Other
Definitions
- n. 1
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.
We might abate...the strange cryptography of Gaffarell in his Starrie Booke of Heaven.
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- cryptographies → cryptologies, cryptanalyses, codings…
Example sentences
- coding He started recording coding tutorials on YouTube.
- steganography The criminals used steganography to hide their communication in plain sight.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| cryptography | rising | |
| cryptology | rising | |
| cryptanalysis | rising | |
| coding | rising | |
| steganography | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- coding2
- 10 letters
- cryptology
- 13 letters
- cryptanalysis, steganography
- 14 letters
- cryptanalytics, cryptographics
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (coding2 = 2 syllables).