encryption

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encryption

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Etymology

From encrypt +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkɹɪpʃən/, /ɛnˈkɹɪpʃən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkɹɪpʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

encryption (usually uncountable, plural encryptions)

1. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
2. (cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
   • 2005, Kun Peng, Colin Boyd, Ed Dawson, Byoungcheon Lee, An Efficient And Verifiable Solution To The Millionaire Problem:

     As ZT() can only test whether a single ciphertext is an encryption of zero, it cannot work when there are more than one ciphertext to test.

Derived terms

• homomorphic encryption
• on-the-fly encryption
• superencryption
• unencryption

 

Related terms

• encrypt
• decrypt

Translations

process

Catalan: encriptació f Chinese: Mandarin: 加密 (zh) (jiāmì) Czech: šifrování n, zašifrování n Danish: kryptering (da) n Esperanto: ĉifrado Finnish: salaus (fi), salakirjoitus (fi) French: chiffrement (fr) Georgian: დაშიფვრა (dašipvra) German: Verschlüsselung (de) f Greek: κρυπτογράφηση (el) (kryptográfisi) Italian: cifratura (it) f, codifica (it) f Japanese: 暗号化 (ja) (あんごうか, angōka) Korean: 암호화(暗號化) (ko) (amhohwa) Lithuanian: šifravimas, kriptografija (lt) Persian: رمزگذاری (fa) (ramz-gozâri) Polish: szyfrowanie (pl) n Portuguese: encriptação (pt) f Romanian: criptare f Russian: шифрова́ние (ru) n (šifrovánije), шифро́вка (ru) f (šifróvka) Spanish: encriptación Swedish: kryptering (sv) c

something encrypted

Danish: kryptering (da) n Finnish: salakirjoitus (fi)