cryptographic
adjective
cryp·to·graph·ic
ˌkrip-tə-ˈgra-fik 
: of, relating to, or using cryptography
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Slipping Past Security Goldwasser was initially interested in using cryptographic tools to tackle the AI issue known as alignment, with the goal of preventing models from generating bad information.
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Peter Hall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2025
The architecture uses cryptographic tokens to verify service status without exposing personal information.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results, each trustee holds a third of the cryptographic key material needed to decrypt results.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Nov. 2025
This ensures data confidentiality both in transit and at rest by utilizing cryptographic algorithms to convert data into unreadable formats.
—Jason Phillips, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
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Peter Hall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Dec. 2025
The architecture uses cryptographic tokens to verify service status without exposing personal information.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Dec. 2025
To prevent two of them from colluding to cook the results, each trustee holds a third of the cryptographic key material needed to decrypt results.
—ArsTechnica, 22 Nov. 2025
This ensures data confidentiality both in transit and at rest by utilizing cryptographic algorithms to convert data into unreadable formats.
—Jason Phillips, jsonline.com, 28 Oct. 2025
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“Cryptographic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cryptographic. Accessed 25 Dec. 2025.
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