Indeed. As upsetting as it may be to have ambiguity introduced into the terms of your domain, you're never going to stop it. Better to focus your efforts on wha

Indeed. As upsetting as it may be to have ambiguity introduced into the terms of your domain, you're never going to stop it. Better to focus your efforts on what you can control: your own choice of terms. The term cryptography has always left out the critical importance of operational security and correct implementation and usage of cryptography. Instead of trying to protect "crypto", which is never going to happen, we can choose to use a different term, maybe even one which encompasses a fuller range of concerns. Data security, InfoSec, communication privacy... I don't know what the best term would be, but "crypto" is never going to go back to unambiguously referring to cryptography. Terms must always adapt to changes around them. "Silent movie" wasn't a term before "talkies" came around. They just called them "movies".