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• n  the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms
• n  act of writing in code or cipher

• In the '70s virtually all information relating to cryptography was under the control of the National Security Agency.
• Until quite recently, cryptography -- the science of making and breaking secret codes -- was, well, secret.
• In '70s America virtually all information relating to cryptography was under the control of the National Security Agency.

• cryptanalysis
• cryptanalytics
• cryptology
• coding
• secret writing
• steganography

News & Articles

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• The NSA Designed The Algorithm That's At The Core Of Internet Security
  NSA's the name, cryptography's the game. 
  June 10, 2013 - Business Insider via Yahoo! Finance
• Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Unhackable. It’s Not
  A technique called quantum cryptography can, in principle, allow you to encrypt a message in such a way that it would never be read by anyone whose eyes it isn’t for. But in recent years, methods that were once thought ...
  June 7, 2013 - Wired News

Quotes

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• Linus Torvalds in ZDNet
  I think a lot of people may find that the GPLv3 'anti-DRM' measures aren't all that wonderful after all,Torvalds said in a posting Wednesday to the Linux kernel mailing list. "Digital signatures and cryptography aren't just 'bad DRM.' They...
• Whitfield Diffie in ZDNet UK
  We have had remarkable success in cryptography,said Diffie at a forum session at the conference in San Francisco. "The security of cryptographic systems seems, as a practical matter, to have been resolved. On the other hand, internet...
• Andrew Dickson White in EurekAlert (press release)
  If we could perform calculations for much larger numbers, then fundamental changes would be needed in cryptography,says White. "And there are paths to a fully scalable quantum computer."