encryption

Etymology

encrypt + -ion

noun

  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.
    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. 2005, Kun Peng, Colin Boyd, Ed Dawson, Byoungcheon Lee, An Efficient And Verifiable Solution To The Millionaire Problem

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