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cryptographic

cryptographic adjective: relating to cryptography.

Adjective

cryptographic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to cryptography.
    • The cryptographic community includes both cryptographers (those who make codes) and cryptanalysts (those who break codes).
    • The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.2014, Thomas Feller, Trustworthy Reconfigurable Systems

Origin of cryptographic

From cryptography + -ic.

Words formed from cryptographic

Questions about cryptographic

What does cryptographic mean?
Cryptographic means relating to cryptography.
What part of speech is cryptographic?
Cryptographic is an adjective.

Words near cryptographic in the dictionary

  1. cryptograph
  2. cryptographal
  3. cryptographed
  4. cryptographer
  5. cryptographers
  6. cryptographic
  7. cryptographical
  8. cryptographically
  9. cryptographics
  10. cryptographies
  11. cryptographing

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