Re: AW: Tales from the "_ _ _ crypt"
working as a technical writer for a company that works in the field of
encryption I have always used "decrypt" as the opposite to "encrypt"
I still have an old US military training manual I acquired when I was a kid fascinated by codes and ciphers (there is a difference). This was published in the mid-1950s, long before computer encryption was commonplace. It uses decode as the antonym for encode, and decrypt for encrypt.
Kat Nagel,
who enjoys decryption much more than decoding. Codes tend to be either obvious or impossible. Ciphers are much more like jigsaw puzzles, subject to logical analysis.
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