daneel on Nostr: I seem to recall that Erik's book describes the origin of 'crypto' as being the ...
I seem to recall that Erik's book describes the origin of 'crypto' as being the ancient Greek for 'hidden'.
So 'crypto' means 'hidden' and 'cryptography' means something like 'hidden writing'.
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