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yeaaah just spell it out, like an animal

"Encryption" is unambiguous and is almost always what is meant. (But then I don't say crypto because I'm not slinging buzzwords to impress people.)

Cryptography deals with much more than encryption though, and also in real life often you want properties that go beyond what encryption provides (message integrity, forgery resistance, perfect forward secrecy, anonymity, ..).

This is completely false. Encryption is just a single branch of cryptography.

I dispute the idea that cryptography almost always refers to encryption. And I've never said "crypto" to impress people. (Who would that impress?)

> So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well.

Considering cryptography is a far more useful and pervasive technology, I feel it should have dibs on the shorter "crypto" slang.