How to Use cryptography in a Sentence

cryptography

noun
  • Companies often use cryptography to protect private information.
  • The cryptography involved in this process ensures that the proof can’t be spoofed.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
  • Back then, the field of modern cryptography was still young.
    Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 15 Sep. 2020
  • In the memoirs, the Biden code can mutate into a kind of cryptography.
    Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The first will be on cryptography and privacy and how to deal with the first while being mindful of the second.
    Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2022
  • So these are the types of problems that people are trying to build cryptography on.
    Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2019
  • The Army and the Navy had cryptography and reconnaissance units, too.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • At the time email was being invented, so were new forms of cryptography.
    Quinn Norton, The Atlantic, 21 May 2018
  • Next, the researchers want to test this method for long-distance quantum cryptography.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Your cryptography is thus only as strong as the random that supports it.
    Denis Mandich, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
  • In 1956, he was drafted into the Army and was trained as an infantry rifleman and in cryptography.
    Yvonne Wenger, baltimoresun.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Knots can also be used for studying the paths of objects in moving systems and for cryptography schemes.
    Eugenia Cheng, WSJ, 8 July 2021
  • Julian Assange had spoken at length about the Cypherpunks, the early 90s movement that sought to enact change through code and the laws of cryptography.
    Roger Huang, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • A decade or two ago, the word was generally used as shorthand for cryptography.
    New York Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • If there is, then all of classical cryptography would break.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 June 2024
  • With some clever cryptography, the service was finally able to devise a method for the encrypting the backup before it's sent to the cloud for storage.
    Brian Barrett, Wired, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The way Bitcoin deals with the first problem is asymmetric-key cryptography.
    Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2011
  • The term describes the use of advanced cryptography to prove something is true while revealing little else.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 9 Mar. 2023
  • But that long string fails a crucial standard for the level of randomness needed in cryptography.
    Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The cryptography securing the network needs to be airtight.
    The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The protocol Bennett and Brassard proposed, called BB84, would launch the field of quantum cryptography.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 22 Sep. 2022
  • What's less clever, and more maddening, are the ways companies overhype this style of quantum cryptography.
    Tom Simonite, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Lattice cryptography is one of the most successful attempts so far.
    Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The transmission of such keys is crucial to quantum cryptography.
    The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Anish Mohammed is a researcher and consultant who has been working in the security and cryptography area for the past two decades.
    CNN, 27 Dec. 2019
  • And in the middle of all this, this mysterious paper appeared on a cryptography email listserv.
    New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • In cryptography, a nonce is a random number used for a specific purpose.
    Austen Erblat, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2022
  • Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins, tweeted on Monday that his son wanted to dye his hair blue – but only if dad did it too.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 26 June 2019
  • So, cryptography’s meaning has really evolved over the years.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The history of cryptography, the art of writing and solving codes, dates back to ancient times when people used simple substitution ciphers to encrypt messages.
    David Schiffer, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024

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