Cryptology Definition

krĭp-tŏlə-jē
noun
The study of secret codes or ciphers and the devices used to create and decipher them.
Webster's New World
The study of cryptanalysis or cryptography.
American Heritage

The practice of analysing encoded messages, in order to decode them.

Wiktionary
Secret or enigmatical language.
Wiktionary

Origin of Cryptology

  • crypto- +‎ -logy, from Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kryptós, “hidden”) + λόγος (logos, “word”).

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