encryption

English

Etymology

From encrypt +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (Canada, US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈkɹɪpʃən/, /ɛnˈkɹɪpʃən/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkɹɪpʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

encryption (usually uncountable, plural encryptions)

1. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
2. (cryptography) A ciphertext, a cryptogram, an encrypted value. Usually used with the preposition "of" followed by the value that is hidden in it.
   • 2005, Kun Peng, Colin Boyd, Ed Dawson, Byoungcheon Lee, An Efficient And Verifiable Solution To The Millionaire Problem:

     As ZT() can only test whether a single ciphertext is an encryption of zero, it cannot work when there are more than one ciphertext to test.

Derived terms

• homomorphic encryption
• on-the-fly encryption
• superencryption
• unencryption

 

Related terms

• encrypt
• decrypt

Translations

process

• Catalan: encriptació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加密 (zh) (jiāmì)

• Czech: šifrování n, zašifrování n
• Danish: kryptering (da) n
• Esperanto: ĉifrado
• Finnish: salaus (fi), salakirjoitus (fi)
• French: chiffrement (fr)
• Georgian: დაშიფვრა (dašipvra)
• German: Verschlüsselung (de) f
• Greek: κρυπτογράφηση (el) (kryptográfisi)
• Italian: cifratura (it) f, codifica (it) f
• Japanese: 暗号化 (ja) (あんごうか, angōka)
• Korean: 암호화(暗號化) (ko) (amhohwa)
• Lithuanian: šifravimas, kriptografija (lt)
• Persian: رمزگذاری (fa) (ramz-gozâri)
• Polish: szyfrowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: encriptação (pt) f
• Romanian: criptare f
• Russian: шифрова́ние (ru) n (šifrovánije), шифро́вка (ru) f (šifróvka)
• Spanish: encriptación
• Swedish: kryptering (sv) c

something encrypted

• Danish: kryptering (da) n
• Finnish: salakirjoitus (fi)