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asymmetric cryptographynouncryptography in which the key used in decryption is different from that used for encryption.
chaosnounAny state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
cryptovariablenoun(cryptography) The key used for encryption and decryption.
shannon's maximnoun(cryptography) "The enemy knows the system" — a restatement of Kerckhoffs's principle.
incrementalitynounThe property or characteristic of being incremental.
cryptofunctionnoun(cryptography) A mathematical function used to carry out cryptography.
depthnounthe vertical distance below a surface; the degree to which something is deep
birthday attacknoun(cryptography) A covert method of decryption exploiting the so-called birthday paradox.
kerckhoffs's principlenoun(cryptography) The idea that a cryptosystem should be designed to be secure even if everything about the system, except the secret key, is public knowledge.
noncenoun(lexicography) A nonce word.
block ciphernoun(cryptography) Any deterministic cipher that operates on fixed-size groups of bits (binary digits), called blocks, with an unvarying transformation specified by a symmetric key.
subcascadenoun(mathematics, sciences) A cascade that originates from a member of another
accumulatornoun(literal) One who, or that which, accumulates.
nothing-up-my-sleeve numbernoun(cryptography) A number which, by its construction, is above suspicion of having hidden properties; used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers.
cryptomorphismnoun(mathematics) the condition of being cryptomorphic
chaos theorynoun(mathematics) The study of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
trapdoor functionnoun(mathematics, cryptography) A function that is easy to compute in one direction but difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse) without special information.
cryptosystemnounA system of cryptography.
cryptomathematicsnounThe mathematics of cryptography.
homomorphic encryptionnoun(cryptography) A form of encryption that permits users to perform computations on its encrypted data without first decrypting it.

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