How to Use cryptography in a Sentence

cryptography

noun
  • Companies often use cryptography to protect private information.
  • Code and cryptography are a part of this, but the smaller part.
    Omid Malekan, Fortune, 21 Jan. 2026
  • The cryptography involved in this process ensures that the proof can’t be spoofed.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
  • It’s still used in cryptography.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
  • So these are the types of problems that people are trying to build cryptography on.
    Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Your cryptography is thus only as strong as the random that supports it.
    Denis Mandich, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • At the time email was being invented, so were new forms of cryptography.
    Quinn Norton, The Atlantic, 21 May 2018
  • Next, the researchers want to test this method for long-distance quantum cryptography.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The sloppy fake doesn't need cryptography.
    Padmakumar Nair, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • In the memoirs, the Biden code can mutate into a kind of cryptography.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Was his creation of public key cryptography based on a real person’s work?
    TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • So there are maybe four different research strands in cryptography.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Knots can also be used for studying the paths of objects in moving systems and for cryptography schemes.
    Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 8 July 2021
  • The proof could open new doors for quantum computing and cryptography research.
    Quanta Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Narratives are fragile in ways that cryptography is not.
    Sandy Peng, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Lattice cryptography is one of the most successful attempts so far.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • There’s also been a surge of new interest in quantum cryptography.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026
  • So, cryptography’s meaning has really evolved over the years.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • In cryptography, a nonce is a random number used for a specific purpose.
    Austen Erblat, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2022
  • But these days, neither man has much time to devote to cryptography thanks to a flurry of other commitments.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 Mar. 2016
  • This has meant that the most advanced forms of cryptography—which are based on factorization—cannot now be broken.
    Charina Chou, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The term describes the use of advanced cryptography to prove something is true while revealing little else.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But that long string fails a crucial standard for the level of randomness needed in cryptography.
    Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The transmission of such keys is crucial to quantum cryptography.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • First, voters would need access to a machine that could perform advanced cryptography.
    Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Zero-knowledge proofs are the closest cryptography gets to magic.
    Peter Hall, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Researchers are hailing the new work as a watershed moment for cryptography.
    Quanta Magazine, 30 Jan. 2014
  • The way Bitcoin deals with the first problem is asymmetric-key cryptography.
    Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2011
  • But a recent line of work has offered tantalizing hints that the scope of quantum cryptography might be much broader.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026

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