Sentence examples for cryptology from inspiring English sources
noun
The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
Child's play Watch out for Mr Blair The spies they are a-changin' Still fizzy Rock and remembrance Reprints Related items Slovakia's politics: The secret service gets its (own) manAug 1st 2002Both the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency have museums; but the CIA's is (absurdly, though typically) not open to the public, while the NSA's focuses on the history of cryptology.
(See cryptology: Cryptography).
Encryption is a process basic to cryptology.
The decipherment of Linear B was a sheer triumph of methodical cryptology, again based on the correct hunch that the hidden language was Greek.
They met at the Riverbank Laboratories (Geneva, Illinois), where they both eventually became involved in cryptology, working often for the government in decoding diplomatic messages.
Active research in higher-dimensional Euclidean geometry includes convexity and sphere packings and their applications in cryptology and crystallography (see crystal: Structure).
See also Cryptology: Developments during World Wars I and II.
The term cryptology is derived from the Greek kryptós ("hidden") and lógos ("word").
In classical cryptology the participants trust each other but not outsiders; typical examples include diplomatic communications and military commands.
Of far greater consequence to modern cryptology in fact, an idea that remains its cornerstone was the conclusion drawn by Mauborgne and William F. Friedman that the only type of cryptosystem that is unconditionally secure uses a random onetime key.
