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cryptosystem

cryptosystem noun: a system of cryptography.

Noun

cryptosystem (plural cryptosystems)

  1. A system of cryptography.
    • In our example of the affine cryptosystem family, deciphering is also accomplished by an affine map, namely P#92;equiva#123;-1#125;C-a#123;-1#125;b#92;bmodN, and so the deciphering transformation uses the same algorithm as the enciphering transformation, except with a different key, namely, the...1987, Neal Koblitz, A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography, Springer, page 81
    • Our results show that many existing fast pseudomultiplication implementations (hitherto limited to applications in Diffie--Hellman key exchange) can be wrapped with simple and efficient pre-and post-computations to yield competitive full scalar multiplication algorithms, ready for use in more...2015, Ping Ngai Chung, Craig Costello, Benjamin Smith, “Fast, uniform, and compact scalar multiplication for elliptic curves and genus 2 Jacobians with applications to signature schemes”, in arXiv

Forms of cryptosystem

pluralcryptosystems

Origin of cryptosystem

From crypto- + system.

Questions about cryptosystem

What does cryptosystem mean?
Cryptosystem means a system of cryptography.
What part of speech is cryptosystem?
Cryptosystem is a noun.
What is the plural of cryptosystem?
The plural of cryptosystem is cryptosystems.

Words near cryptosystem in the dictionary

  1. cryptostome
  2. cryptostomes
  3. cryptostomy
  4. cryptosyringid
  5. cryptosyringids
  6. cryptosystem
  7. cryptosystems
  8. cryptotanshinone
  9. cryptotephra
  10. cryptotephrastratigraphy
  11. cryptoTERF

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