Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Written in secret characters or in cipher: as, a cryptographic despatch.
- Designed or contrived for writing in secret characters: as, a cryptographic machine.
- In petrography, noting a fabric formed by the graphic intergrowth of two minerals, but so minute as not to be seen by the unaided eye.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to
cryptography .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to cryptanalysis
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Examples
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Freedom to Tinker is reporting that two groups have signifcantly damaged the current leaders in cryptographic hashes.
Boing Boing: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives 2004
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Well, those of you who know anything about cryptography know that it’s not only possible to encipher an informative text with a certain cryptographic key, but to embed information in the key itself.
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His tasking would have continued as a technician assigned to maintain cryptographic machines which form a secure link in the Navy’s communications environment.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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For years, I have said that the easiest way to break a cryptographic product is almost never by breaking the algorithm, that almost invariably there is a programming error that allows you to bypass the mathematics and break the product.
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For years, I have said that the easiest way to break a cryptographic product is almost never by breaking the algorithm, that almost invariably there is a programming error that allows you to bypass the mathematics and break the product.
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Distin as he wrote in a character that might have been called cryptographic, for it would have defied any one but the writer to have made it out.
The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870
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Batman has a device called a cryptographic sequencer, which serves as an electronic puzzle solving tool Rogue's gallery: Several of Batman's most well-known villains appear in Arkham City, including Two-Face... ... and Catwoman, Batman's on-again off-again girlfriend/nemisis How're ya doin', Mr B?
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Tom Hoggins 2011
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On the topic of safely destroying data, what Thibadeau refers to as cryptographic erase, not only can self-encrypting hard drives make the process easier, it can make destroying data faster and also more cost-effective.
unknown title 2009
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At the heart of the system is an algorithm that is used to compute a 128-character number known as a cryptographic hash from the digital information in a particular document.
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At the heart of the system is an algorithm that is used to compute a 128-character number known as a cryptographic hash from the digital information in a particular document.
Educated Guesswork 2009
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