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358 points impish9208 | 1 comments | 18 Oct 24 13:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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rsynnott ◴[18 Oct 24 13:53 UTC] No.41879490[source]▶
You know it's _proper_ vintage crypto code because it uses the now very unfashionable word 'encipher'.
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BuyMyBitcoins ◴[18 Oct 24 14:47 UTC] No.41879935[source]▶
Why is it unfashionable? I quite like it.
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1. maxbond ◴[18 Oct 24 18:56 UTC] No.41882372[source]▶
What comes to my mind is that decipher has a well established common meaning, but decrypt just means "dis-encrypt".