cryptology

English

Etymology

crypto- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (lógos, “word”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɹɪpˈtɒl.ə.dʒi/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kɹɪpˈtɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/
• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

cryptology (usually uncountable, plural cryptologies)

1. The science or study of mathematical, linguistic, and other coding patterns and histories.
2. The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.
3. Secret or enigmatical language.
   • 1991, English Studies:

     But the question of speech-play causes confusion to the slang researcher because this subject borders on family slang, private lingo, secret language, cryptologies, disguised language of children and grown-ups

Usage notes

An umbrella term for cryptography and cryptanalysis.

Derived terms

• cryptologic
• cryptologically

Translations

study

• Finnish: kryptologia (fi)

practice

• Bulgarian: криптология f (kriptologija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 密碼學／密码学 (zh) (mìmǎxué), 密码术 (zh) (mìmǎshù)

• Danish: kryptologi (da)
• Estonian: krüptoloogia (et)
• Finnish: kryptografia (fi), salakirjoitustaito
• French: cryptologie (fr) f
• Georgian: კრიპტოლოგია (ḳriṗṭologia)
• German: Kryptologie (de) f
• Icelandic: dulmálsfræði f
• Ido: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: crittologia (it) f
• Japanese: 暗号学 (あんごうがく, angōgaku)
• Khmer: រហស្សវិទ្យា (rea’hahsa’ vityie)
• Lithuanian: kriptologija f
• Malay: kriptologi
• Polish: kryptologia (pl) f
• Portuguese: criptologia f
• Russian: криптоло́гия (ru) f (kriptológija)
• Serbo-Croatian: kriptologija (sh) f
• Spanish: criptología f
• Swedish: kryptologi (sv) c

secret or enigmatical language

• Finnish: salakieli (fi)

See also

• cryptography, cryptanalysis, ciphertext, plaintext, cleartext, code, key
• Appendix:Glossary of cryptography