cryptology
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Origin of cryptology
From the New Latin word cryptologia, dating back to 1635–45. See crypto-, -logy
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Sometime in the next few years, we are going to see quantum computers cracking cryptology.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
He was at a cryptology conference a few years ago, when he saw a presentation about Elizebeth Friedman.
From Scientific American • Oct. 12, 2023
In our own time, Renaissance scholarship helped inspire World War II code breaking, while military cryptology techniques were in turn adapted as tools of literary analysis.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2022
Transhumanists’ supposedly cutting-edge view of genes reflects early molecular biology, which was quickly appropriated and applied to living things concepts derived from computing, information theory, cryptology, and cybernetics.
From Slate • Mar. 22, 2022
For years, they had been able to say next to nothing about cryptology in public.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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