Comment on What the Crypto Community Should Learn from GitHub's AcquisitionparentComments−recursive8ySo how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.−kinsomo8ySo how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.Considering cryptography is a far more useful and pervasive technology, I feel it should have dibs on the shorter "crypto" slang.−benmdiOP8yyeaaah just spell it out, like an animal−mLuby8y"Encryption" is unambiguous and is almost always what is meant. (But then I don't say crypto because I'm not slinging buzzwords to impress people.)−stingraycharles8yThis is completely false. Encryption is just a single branch of cryptography.−grumdan8yCryptography deals with much more than encryption though, and also in real life often you want properties that go beyond what encryption provides (message integrity, forgery resistance, perfect forward secrecy, anonymity, ..).−recursive8yI dispute the idea that cryptography almost always refers to encryption. And I've never said "crypto" to impress people. (Who would that impress?)
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So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.
Considering cryptography is a far more useful and pervasive technology, I feel it should have dibs on the shorter "crypto" slang.
yeaaah just spell it out, like an animal
"Encryption" is unambiguous and is almost always what is meant. (But then I don't say crypto because I'm not slinging buzzwords to impress people.)
This is completely false. Encryption is just a single branch of cryptography.
Cryptography deals with much more than encryption though, and also in real life often you want properties that go beyond what encryption provides (message integrity, forgery resistance, perfect forward secrecy, anonymity, ..).
I dispute the idea that cryptography almost always refers to encryption. And I've never said "crypto" to impress people. (Who would that impress?)