Michał Górny <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, 2023-12-09 at 00:13 +0000, Daniel Cerqueira via Gnupg-devel > wrote: >> It is a valid point of view, that when we 'encrypt' >> stuff, we are actually 'ciphering' stuff, we are not putting stuff in >> a crypt, but we are leaving them at plain sight (but with the content >> passed through a cipher). > > "encrypt" actually doesn't stem from "a crypt" but 'from Ancient Greek > κρυπτός (kruptós, literally “hidden, concealed, private, secret”).' > > https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encrypt#Etymology
I know that 'encryption' is said to come from the Greek root word. Still, a 'crypt' also has the same root word, and 'a crypt' and 'encryption' relates more easily than the Greek meaning (since most of us don't talk ancient Greek). > Furthermore, you are not "leaving them in plain sight", the actual data > is no longer in plain sight when it's encrypted. By "leaving them in plain sight" I am saying leaving the data accessible. Instead of inacessible in a crypt.
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