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So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.
by recursive 8y ago
So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.
- benmdi 8y agoyeaaah just spell it out, like an animal
- mLuby 8y ago"Encryption" is unambiguous and is almost always what is meant. (But then I don't say crypto because I'm not slinging buzzwords to impress people.)
- grumdan 8y agoCryptography deals with much more than encryption though, and also in real life often you want properties that go beyond what encryption provides (message integrity, forgery resistance, perfect forward secrecy, anonymity, ..).
- stingraycharles 8y agoThis is completely false. Encryption is just a single branch of cryptography.
- recursive 8y agoI dispute the idea that cryptography almost always refers to encryption. And I've never said "crypto" to impress people. (Who would that impress?)
- kinsomo 8y ago> So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well. Considering cryptography is a far more useful and pervasive technology, I feel it should have dibs on the shorter "crypto" slang.