This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords. May also apply to electronic signal, hard drive, message, document...

n. the process of converting messages in ordinary language, or other information into a secret coded form that cannot be interpreted without knowing the secret method for interpretation, called the key.

n. the activity of converting data or information into code

"In fact I will use the term encryption, where quantum information is transformed in ways that an observer who lack the appropriate “key” is unable to cypher."

secret writing    steganography    cryptography    coding   

cypher    PGP    decrypt    encrypt    public key    PKI   

data encryption    compression   

encoding    coding    enciphering    ciphering    cyphering    writing in code   

Egyptian    conniption    conscription    description    inscription    nonprescription    prescription    proscription    subscription    transcription   

authentication    cryptographic    password    backup    protocol    virtualization    cryptography    infrastructure    firewall    validation