Definition of cryptographic
: of, relating to, or using cryptography
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The simplest transactions just require a digital signature—cryptographic proof that a transaction has been approved by the owner of a particular private key.
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New forms of cryptographic communication were born, allowing e-commerce and web services and online messaging to come into being.
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The research team members have been behind a variety of other important cryptographic attacks, including one from 2016 called Drown, which decrypted communications protected by the transport layer security protocol.
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Companies generally protect user passwords by scrambling them in a cryptographic process known as hashing.
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The reason Bitcoin mining consumes so much electricity is that producing each new Bitcoin requires solving a complex mathematical puzzle, through a cryptographic process performed by high-powered computers.
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Private, cryptographic keys need to exists as ones and zeros on actually computer memory.
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The transmission of such entangled bits allows two people to share a cryptographic key.
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The company uses a cryptographic technique to convert users’ passwords into a unique string of letters and characters, called a hash, which is stored on Twitter’s servers and used to authenticate login attempts.
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