Encryption vs. Cryptography

Encryptionnoun

(cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.

Encryptionnoun

(cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.

Encryptionnoun

the process of converting messages in ordinary language, or other information into a secret coded form that cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for interpretation, called the key.

Encryptionnoun

the activity of converting from plain text into code

Encryption

In cryptography, encryption is the process of encoding information. This process converts the original representation of the information, known as plaintext, into an alternative form known as ciphertext.

Cryptographynoun

The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages, sender authentication, non-repudiation of messages, and many other related issues), regardless of the used medium such as pencil and paper or computers.

Cryptographynoun

The act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code.

Cryptographynoun

The science which studies methods for encoding messages so that they can be read only by a person who knows the secret information required for decoding, called the key; it includes cryptanalysis, the science of decoding encrypted messages without possessing the proper key, and has several other branches; see for example steganography.

Cryptographynoun

the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms

Cryptographynoun

act of writing in code or cipher

Cryptography

Cryptography, or cryptology (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptós and γράφειν graphein, , or -λογία -logia, , respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. More generally, cryptography is about constructing and analyzing protocols that prevent third parties or the public from reading private messages; various aspects in information security such as data confidentiality, data integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation are central to modern cryptography.