cryppie
<job, cryptography>
/krip'ee/ A cryptographer. One who hacks or implements software or hardware for cryptography.
[Jargon File]Last updated: 1996-08-23
crypt
Unix command to perform encryption and decryption.cryptanalysis
The branch of cryptography concerned with decoding encrypted messages when you're not supposed to be able to.Last updated: 1994-12-06
Crypt Breakers Workbench
(cbw) A freely distributable multi-window integrated workbench of tools for cryptanalysis of files encrypted with the 4.2BSD Unix crypt command. It was originally written by Robert W. Baldwin at MIT. ftp://black.ox.ac.uk/src/security, ftp://scitsc.wlv.ac.uk/pub/infomagic/usenet.cdrom/sources/unix/volume10, ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume10.Last updated: 1994-12-06
cryptography
The practise and study of encryption and decryption - encoding data so that it can only be decoded by specific individuals. A system for encrypting and decrypting data is a cryptosystem. These usually involve an algorithm for combining the original data ("plaintext") with one or more "keys" - numbers or strings of characters known only to the sender and/or recipient. The resulting output is known as "ciphertext".
The security of a cryptosystem usually depends on the secrecy of (some of) the keys rather than with the supposed secrecy of the algorithm. A strong cryptosystem has a large range of possible keys so that it is not possible to just try all possible keys (a "brute force" approach). A strong cryptosystem will produce ciphertext which appears random to all standard statistical tests. A strong cryptosystem will resist all known previous methods for breaking codes ("cryptanalysis"). See also cryptology, public-key encryption, RSA. Usenet newsgroups: sci.crypt, sci.crypt.research. FAQ MIT. Cryptography glossary. RSA cryptography glossary. Cryptography, PGP, and Your Privacy.Last updated: 2000-01-16
CryptoLocker
<security>
The best known example of the kind of malware known as ransomware. CryptoLocker encrypts files on your computer and then demands that you send the malware operator money in order to have the files decrypted.
According to FBI estimates, CryptoLocker had more than 500,000 victims between September 2013 and May 2014. Around 1.3 percent paid to free their files, earning the malware makers around $3 million. The criminal network was smashed by authorities and security researchers in May 2014 and a tool put online to decryt victim's files for free. http://thehackernews.com/2014/08/CryptoLocker-Decryption-Keys-Tool.html.Last updated: 2015-01-22
cryptology
The study of cryptography and cryptanalysis.
Last updated: 1994-12-06
Crystal
Concurrent Representation of Your Space-Time ALgorithms. A recursion equation parallel language. ["A Parallel Language and its Compilation to Multiprocessor Machines or VLSI", M.C. Chen, 13th POPL, ACM 1986 pp.131-139].Last updated: 1994-12-06
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