• Anticryptography

    Origin

    - + cryptography

    Full definition of anticryptography

    Noun

    anticryptography

    (uncountable)
    1. (rare) The encoding of messages in such a way that they are as easy as possible to decipher.
      • 1973, Carl Sagan, The cosmic connection: an extraterrestrial perspectiveWe are considering not cryptography, but anticryptography, the design by a very intelligent civilization of a message so simple that even civilizations as primitive as ours can understand it.
      • 2005, Paul A LaViolette, Earth Under Fire: Humanity's Survival of the Ice AgeIt is common in the art of anticryptography to include a cross-check device with the coded message so that the recipient may reassure himself that he has properly deciphered and understood the message.
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