Word.ws English Dictionary

cryptosystems

cryptosystems is the plural of cryptosystem.

Meaning of cryptosystem

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

Questions about cryptosystems

What is cryptosystems the plural of?
Cryptosystems is the plural of cryptosystem.

Words near cryptosystems in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cryptosystems (page history and authors); cryptosystem (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cryptosystems.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cryptosystems. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.