Timeline for Why "encipher" instead of "encrypt" and "decipher" instead of "decrypt"?
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| Mar 27, 2023 at 19:38 | comment | added | Jeff Learman | For a bit of historic background on the two forms, see my answer at english.stackexchange.com/questions/66164/… , which might not be visible yet. | |
| Mar 21, 2023 at 0:01 | answer | added | Paul Traywick | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 19, 2020 at 10:13 | vote | accept | GilbertS | ||
| Nov 16, 2020 at 8:52 | comment | added | kelalaka | I may find some evidence for the reverse, see the bottom of the answer. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 13:48 | comment | added | Aman Grewal | For your other question, standards are generally not free. An organization that needs it will buy it. For many use cases, using a draft (which are often released for free) is sufficient. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 12:16 | comment | added | GilbertS | @Maeher Could be. We want to set it up in such a way that when the technology for treating what killed them is invented, like maybe cancer drugs, we can access their dead body but only us or someone after us and not the general population. So we are the ones with the key. There is no point in leaving the key inside the crypt since they are immobilized so cant leave on their own. I think what we could do is to leave the private key with their family and allow it to pass through generations. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 11:11 | comment | added | Maeher | I guess public key encryption is then entombing a dead body in a crypt where the key hangs beside the door. | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 10:02 | comment | added | GilbertS | @poncho I have been researching more on this topic. It has led me to a cryptologist called Ralph Merkel. Interestingly he is researching into cryonics, a field for preserving dead people's brains for future resurrection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Merkle | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 1:59 | answer | added | kelalaka | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 21:24 | comment | added | fgrieu♦ | Clicking preview gives enough of the standard to see that it uses "encipherment" and "decipherment", and lists "encryption" and "decryption" as alternatives. | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 20:43 | comment | added | poncho | Well, one common meaning of "crypt" is "place for dead bodies"; I wouldn't know which culture the standard has in mind (hence this is not answering the question you asked), but I wouldn't think it that outrageous that some people would find the word "crypt" distasteful. BTW: both usages are ultimately derived from the same Greek root kryptos == hidden. | |
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| Nov 13, 2020 at 20:34 | history | asked | GilbertS | CC BY-SA 4.0 |