encipherment
- noun
- /ɪnˈsaɪfərmənt/
- Specialized
:
cifrado
- The encipherment of sensitive information helps to protect it from hackers.
Examples
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After the encipherment of the data, only authorized personnel can access the original message.
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The process of encryption consists of 16 separate rounds of encipherment, each round using a product cipher approach or cipher function.
Academic text (1999) -
Miss Aggie, who by then had learned the ships' names, the communications patterns, and the frequently used phrases of the Japanese fleet, no doubt utilized a form of this process first to dissolve the codeword encipherment and then to reconstruct the new 85,000-group code.
Academic text (1991) -
They employed a new technique for the encipherment of financial records to enhance security.
Synonyms
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5.6
To change information into a code so only people with permission can read it
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4.7
A way of changing information into a code for storing, sending, or keeping it secret
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4.3
A way of changing information into a secret code so only people with the key can read it
Antonyms
How Secure
- Specialized
- Specialized
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4.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Encipherment breaks into en- ('in') and cipher, which comes from the Arabic sifr ('zero' or 'empty') and later came to mean a 'code'. So encipherment is the act of putting a message 'into' a code to keep it secret.