• conciselyverbose
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    210 months ago

    That’s a terrible definition, but “codes” is doing the heavy lifting.

    It is not a code, in that definition, if it does not require knowledge of a key to decode.

    It is literally impossible for anything that doesn’t have a secret key to qualify as cryptography. That is the entire defining trait.

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        10 months ago

        The “key” is the mapping of cipher alphabet to message alphabet.

        There has to be a secret to be cryptography. The meaning has to be hidden without the secret information (though primitive/weak attempts can have a small enough search space to be brute forced). But the content being hidden without that information is the entirety of what the word means.

    • Call me Lenny/Leni
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      110 months ago

      That’s a terrible definition

      How so?

      And what do you think I’ve been talking about this whole time if not forms of substitution?