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If you're in the cryptography business I'd just refer to it as digital security. ( Or cybersecurity if you prefer ). It's the same concept but without the bagg
by eterm 4y ago
If you're in the cryptography business I'd just refer to it as digital security. ( Or cybersecurity if you prefer ).
It's the same concept but without the baggage of "crypto".
- klabb3 4y agoYes but Why should I change? They’re the ones who suck.
- siwatanejo 4y agoCome on, I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography"; doing that would be more cringy than this article itself.
- lordfoom 4y ago> I'm sure And yet you are wrong :)
- sunbum 4y agoLiterally everyone did
- maratc 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book) is from 2001 and it may give you a good indication of what the term crypto was referring to back then.
- voytec 4y agoyp.to - D. J. Bernstein's[1] domain registered in 1997 preceeds Bitcoin[2] by 12 years. [1] https://cr.yp.to/ https://cr.yp.to/ [2] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
- mkl 4y agoHere's OpenSSL calling cryptography crypto in 1998: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master?after=931369429564b5a9bb09711de8e885fef546a0ac+13934&branch=master&path%5B%5D=crypto&qualified_name=refs%2Fheads%2Fmaster https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commits/master?after=9313... And libgcrypt in 2000: https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/bf2fc9201cfa96cd70eff0db34578ff3760ccf59 https://github.com/gpg/libgcrypt/commit/bf2fc9201cfa96cd70ef... Totally normal and not cringy at all. Edit: And on Usenet in 1982: https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.misc&mid=dGVrY2FkLjEyOA https://www.usenetarchives.com/view.php?id=net.misc&mid=dGVr...
- stevoski 4y agoSomeone on the Internet is very wrong today.
- siwatanejo 4y agoAlright, touche.
- bdcravens 4y agoAs someone who was a developer well before Bitcoin was invented, yes, we did. Here's a conference from 1981 put on by the IEEE: https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto81/1_front_matter.pdf
- jjav 4y ago> I'm sure that before bitcoin was invented, no one used the term "crypto" to refer to "cryptography" I have to assume this is sarcasm, right? That's literally what "crypto" has always meant for decades, cryptography. The Crypto conference started in 1981 for instance. https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/ https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/
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- rob74 4y agoWell yeah, there was a time when the title song for the Flintstones could contain the verse "we'll have a gay old time" without anyone questioning Fred and Barney's sexual orientation. Those times are gone too...
- willi59549879 4y agoi still use the old meaning of gay. It has such a wonderful meaning
- LocalH 4y agoYou could say the old meaning of gay is quite...gay
- highwaylights 4y agoAll I can do is upvote this but I kind of want it printed on a hoodie or something as well.
- INTPenis 4y agoHow about encryption? It's called e2ee after all.
- capableweb 4y agoThey're different though. Encryption is just one application of cryptography.
- xg15 4y agoyeah, the vocabulary used in public discussed has done a weird shift to accommodate the takeovers of various marketing departments. What used to be "crypto" is now "cyber". What used to be "cyber" is now "metaverse".
- valdiorn 4y agoCybersecurity is also much more accurate description of the skills/work required to stay safe online. Most computers are not compromised because of flaws in cryptography or the application thereof, they are compromised because of operational security (opening suspicious email attachments, reusing passwords, running systems with default admin passwords, etc). These things have little to do with cryptography and are much better understood as "cybersecurity".