Synonyms of the word

encryption

• n. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key…

coding

• n. The process of encoding or decoding.
• n. The process of writing computer software code.
• n. An encoding.
• n. (emergency medicine) A method of communicating important medical information discreetly and quickly between…
• n. An alternative therapy used to treat addictions by convincing the patient (through hypnosis, placebos,…
• v. present participle of code.

cryptography

• n. The discipline concerned with communication security (eg, confidentiality of messages, integrity of messages,…

encoding

• n. (computing) The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font,…
• n. A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient).
• v. present participle of encode.

steganography

• n. The practice of hiding messages, so that the presence of the message itself is hidden, often by writing…
• n. Specifically: the use of small files in computers to communicate secret information. Compare cryptography…