What's the difference between cryptography and security?

Cryptography


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ryan Rubin, MD of global risk consultancy Protiviti, agrees: "CryptoLocker has been designed to make money using well-known, publicly available cryptography algorithms that were developed by governments and other [legitimate] bodies.
  • (2) Bitcoin is a digital currency based on a methods of cryptography similar to those used to protect confidential emails.
  • (3) When every OAP has been taught to use the net, when every homeless person has a scavenged netbook, when protocols have mutated again to hide their users' transactions with state-of-the-art cryptography, there will be no penalty harsh enough to make the tiniest dent in filesharing.
  • (4) He was withering on the subject the NSA’s undermining of the US National Institute for Standards in Technology’s cryptography projects, saying it had “radicalised mild-mannered cryptographers.
  • (5) Earlier this month the Guardian explained how NSA and GCHQ have worked to insert mathematical weaknesses into cryptography systems used to scramble internet data and other information.
  • (6) But almost two years after he bailed from what he calls the Australian “citizen ship” (to know Murrumu is to be involved in a constant game of verbal cryptography) there seems little doubt he is doing much more than making a merely symbolic point about Indigenous sovereignty, the destructive legacy of invasion, and the urgent need for the commonwealth to strike treaties with the first nations.
  • (7) On the other side, virtually every security and cryptography expert tries patiently to explain that there’s no such thing as “a back door that only the good guys can walk through” (hat tip to Bruce Schneier).
  • (8) The focus is on learning programming skills in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and other languages, with a host of classes to then push on: from applied cryptography through to robotics AI.
  • (9) Whether or not a 64-bit CPU helps, it would be surprising if Apple stepped sideways and designed a 32-bit version of the A7 with the cryptography unit and Touch ID for, say, a 32-bit Touch ID-enabled low-end iPad.
  • (10) Allan listed and responded to eight claims isolated from the report written by researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels.
  • (11) Bitcoins are “mined” by using computers to calculate increasingly complex algorithmic formulas and uses public-key cryptography.
  • (12) It also emerged on Wednesday that police had called in a GCHQ cryptography expert to help crack a password used to lock files within a laptop.
  • (13) Christian Payne moved a monthly gathering of cryptography fans from Bletchley Park to TNMOC after what he said was indifference to the group from the trust.
  • (14) The currency's cryptography makes it almost immune from counterfeiting and its relative anonymity holds out the promise of being able to spend money across the internet without scrutiny.
  • (15) This actually happened yesterday: A professor in the computer science department at Johns Hopkins, a leading American university, had written a post on his blog, hosted on the university's servers, focused on his area of expertise, which is cryptography.
  • (16) The Tunny traffic was produced by a Lorenz CZ cryptography machine which the Bletchley Park mathematicians were able to replicate without ever seeing it.
  • (17) A lot more people have become aware of what can be done.” Cryptography expert and author Bruce Schneier said some of the techniques the NSA used to hack routers are starting to be seen in criminal cases, amongst other attack types.
  • (18) The report, from researchers at the Centre of Interdisciplinary Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography department (Cosic) at the University of Leuven, and the media, information and telecommunication department (Smit) at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, was commissioned after an original draft report revealed Facebook’s privacy policy breaches European law .
  • (19) Our national security will be significantly enhanced if we store less data, not more, and increase the use of strong cryptography, rather than reducing it.” Eris Industries was formerly based in the UK, but moved to Connecticut, US, after the general election.
  • (20) Last week's report said the data stolen by Flame was encrypted "in such a way that only the attackers can read it through strong public key cryptography.

Security


Definition:

  • (n.) Hence, carelessness; negligence; heedlessness.
  • (n.) The condition or quality of being secure; secureness.
  • (n.) Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty.
  • (n.) Freedom from risk; safety.
  • (n.) That which secures or makes safe; protection; guard; defense.
  • (n.) Something given, deposited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge.
  • (n.) One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.
  • (n.) An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (3) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
  • (4) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (5) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
  • (6) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (7) The remaining grafts appeared to be incorporated securely, as determined by radiographic examination.
  • (8) But because current donor contributions are not sufficient to cover the thousands of schools in need of security, I will ask in the commons debate that the UK government allocates more.
  • (9) "Especially at a time when they are turning down voluntary requests and securing the positions of senior managers."
  • (10) Huhne increased the Lib Dems' majority to 3,864 in 2010, securing 24,966 compared with the Conservatives' 21,102, Labour's 5,153 and Ukip's 1,933.
  • (11) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
  • (12) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
  • (13) Pyongyang also called the UN security council an "ugly product of American-led international pressure".
  • (14) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
  • (15) The fact that the security service was in possession of and retained the copy tape until the early summer of 1985 and did not bring it to the attention of Mr Stalker is wholly reprehensible,” he wrote.
  • (16) The results indicate that the legislated increase in the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits beginning in the 21st century will have relatively small effects on the ages of retirement and benefit acceptance.
  • (17) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
  • (18) Chapman and the other "illegals" – sleeper agents without diplomatic cover – seem to have done little to harm American national security.
  • (19) Many organisations choose not to affiliate their aid work with the UN, particularly in conflict situations, where the organisation is not always seen either as neutral or separate from the work of the UN security council.
  • (20) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.