Topic: Why isn't the term "cipher" used anymore? (Read 831 times)
Eminem uses it all the time in like every other one of his songs.
This is technically what bitcoin technology is.
No, it's not. "Cipher" is a synonym for "encryption algorithm". The core Bitcoin protocol doesn't use any encryption.
The word is still commonly used in the terms "block cipher", "stream cipher", "symmetric cipher", "ciphertext", "cipherspec", etc.
Cipher (or cypher) used to be used by cryptographers. This is technically what bitcoin technology is. Has the term been dropped by the cryptographer community?
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