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Old fashioned definitions
- cryptography:
- The act or art of writing in secret characters.
- cryptanalysis:
- The analysis and deciphering of secret
writings.
- cryptology: (OED)
- enigmatical language
- cryptology: (Webster's)
- the scientific study of cryptography and
cryptanalysis
A more modern definition:
- cryptology:
- The scientific study of adversarial
information protection.
Kevin McCurley
1/23/1998