cryptosystem

or cryp·to sys·tem

[ krip-toh-sys-tuhm ]

noun

1. a system for encoding and decoding secret messages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cryptosystem¹

First recorded in 1965–70; crypto- + system

Example Sentences

The cryptosystem designers hadn’t imagined that an attacker would take that approach, so their system was vulnerable to it.

From Scientific American

The same issues arise in cryptography, where we would like to argue that a given cryptosystem is hard to break not merely in the worst case but for most choices of random key.

From Nature

This project has already released recommendations54 of such confidence-inspiring systems for users who can afford them, such as AES-256, McEliece’s code-based cryptosystem and hash-based signatures.

From Nature

Whether the cryptosystem is secure is a different question.

From Nature

“When you’re trying to make a cryptosystem like R.S.A., you are depending on the fact that numbers have a good deal of structure,” Cohn wrote.

From The New Yorker