Examples of cryptography in a Sentence

Companies often use cryptography to protect private information.

Recent Examples on the Web One of our Road to Frontiers virtual streams will be about cryptography and privacy, featuring Lesley Carhart, director of incident response for North America at Dragos. — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 3 May 2022 Next, the researchers want to test this method for long-distance quantum cryptography. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022 Cryptographers have shown that secure cryptography requires one-way functions. — Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2022 Apple argues that none of those new features for dealing with CSAM endanger user privacy—that even the iCloud detection mechanism will use clever cryptography to prevent Apple's scanning mechanism from accessing any visible images that aren't CSAM. — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 5 Aug. 2021 The first will be on cryptography and privacy and how to deal with the first while being mindful of the second. — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2022 A decade or two ago, the word was generally used as shorthand for cryptography. — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022 For starters, Google wants to use it as a replacement for ARM's TrustZone (running things like DRM) and cryptography work. — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2022 Crypto legend—as in, cryptography, the original tech usage of the term—and Signal CEO Moxie Marlinspike has laid into the NFT/web3 craze, suggesting it’s rife with pyramid schemes. — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Jan. 2022 See More

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History and Etymology for cryptography

borrowed from New Latin cryptographia, from crypto- crypto- + -graphia -graphy

Note: New Latin cryptographia was perhaps first used by the Limburg-born philologist Erycius Puteanus (Eric de Put, Eric van den Putte, 1574-1646) in "Cryptographia epistolica, sive de clandestina scriptione," an addendum to his Epistolarum reliquiae centuria V (Leuven/Louvain, 1612). An apparently more widely circulated work using the word was Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX (Lüneburg, 1624) by Gustavus Selenus, pseudonym of Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579-1666).

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