How to Use cryptographic in a Sentence

cryptographic

adjective
  • The idea behind the blockchain is to replace that sense of trust with cryptographic proof.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022
  • It can be used to achieve a lot of other cryptographic primitives.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But the researchers say their goal was to work through the cryptographic challenges to show that such a system could be built.
    — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 29 Jan. 2021
  • Only people who hold the correct cryptographic keys can read the records.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Each time a legitimate change is made, the browser takes a cryptographic hash of some of the code.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This method is used to replace data with either one-way or two-way cryptographic tokens.
    — Sonal Rattan, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • This is done via cryptographic techniques.
    — Boris Bohrer-Bilowitzki, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The average user doesn't want to think about private keys, gas fees or cryptographic proofs.
    — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Some call it a cryptographic posture audit.
    — J Nathaniel Ader, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2026
  • And then that is shortened via a cryptographic hashing function which produces a new value.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In contrast, many hundreds of qubits or more may be required to store just one of the huge numbers used in current cryptographic codes.
    — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2019
  • These hashes and a cryptographic key linked to the user’s app are stored in a database on the Worldcoin blockchain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Had modern cryptographic algorithms been available to the crooks in this tale, Holmes would have been out of luck.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 1 July 2026
  • Had modern cryptographic algorithms been available to the crooks in this tale, Holmes would have been out of luck.
    — PCMAG, 22 Aug. 2023
  • These chips quickly solve the cryptographic puzzle needed to mine bitcoin.
    — The Economist, 19 May 2018
  • Yet despite its high level of security, the cryptographic method can be slow.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Its cryptographic structure laid the seeds for Bitcoin’s own framework.
    — Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 9 Oct. 2024
  • To Duane, who was busy working on a cryptographic algorithm at the time, the anomaly hardly looked like cause for alarm.
    — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 20 May 2021
  • The transmission of such entangled bits allows two people to share a cryptographic key.
    — Neil Savage, Scientific American, 8 May 2018
  • The consequences of the capture of the machines and cryptographic keys were very serious.
    — WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • When the fob responds with the cryptographic message that unlocks and starts the vehicle, the crook's repeater relays it to the car.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The technique will expose the cryptographic hash masking the user password.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
  • The user device then sends the site being logged into a cryptographic proof that the private key resides on the device logging in.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 May 2023
  • There is a public record of how many guesses miners have made in their attempts to solve Bitcoin’s cryptographic puzzles.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Researchers found ways to base the security of a few specific cryptographic tasks directly on the laws of physics.
    — Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 30 June 2024
  • The incident was the result of a weak cryptographic key used to establish trust between hardware and firmware systems.
    — Dell Cameron Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 27 July 2024
  • There is a verify_signatures function that is supposed to take cryptographic signatures from the guardians and bundle them together.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2022
  • At each stage of the process, a cryptographic algorithm creates a unique digital fingerprint of the data—a string of numbers known as a hash.
    — Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2025
  • When authentication is required, the user presents a cryptographic proof, not the raw data.
    — Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • In short, NFTs are cryptographic tokens that represent a unique asset on the blockchain.
    — Yusuf Berkan Altun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021

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