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What is the noun for decrypt?

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crypt
  1. (now rare) A cave or cavern. [from 15th c.]
  2. An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place. [from 16th c.]
  3. (anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure. [from 19th c.]
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  5. Examples:
    1. “I think you said that the Reverend Somebody-or-Other avers that they were a crypt?”
      “The next day one of the brothers summoned everyone in Croglin Grange to the crypt and opened the vault.”
      “Once he's cooped up in that crypt he's going to have a hard time covering the vig.”
decryption
  1. The process reversing an encryption, i.e. the process which converts encrypted data into its original form.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Asymmetric encryption relies on two keys that work together as a pair an encryption key and a decryption key.”
      “A common means of modern encryption is a one-way system in which encryption is easy but decryption is computationally impractical.”
      “More recent viruses and blended threats also extract passwords, decryption keys and logged keystrokes.”
encryption
  1. (cryptography) The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, and/or passwords.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Keylogging renders encryption moot, as it intercepts everything prior to encryption, as well as the keys used to decrypt things.”
      “The encryption keys are sent over dedicated links, and the messages ciphered with those keys are transmitted over the Internet.”
      “Asymmetric encryption relies on two keys that work together as a pair an encryption key and a decryption key.”
cryptitis
  1. inflammation of an intestinal crypt
  2. Examples:
    1. “Colonoscopic biopsies revealed severe inflammation localized in the submucosa and mucosa histopathologically, cryptitis and diffuse active colitis with local ulcerations.”
decrypter
  1. A thing, such as an algorithm, a program, or a device, that decrypts.
encrypter
  1. A thing, such as an algorithm, a program, or a device, that encrypts.
decrypt
cryptic
  1. (informal) A cryptic crossword.
decryptor
  1. Alternative spelling of decrypter
encryptor
  1. Alternative spelling of encrypter
crypticity
  1. The condition of being cryptic.
crypticness
  1. The quality of being cryptic.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Thus some opacity and crypticness must he part of any account of reconciliation that makes sense.”
      “Reaffirming their liking for proggy crypticness, they've named it after a conceptual novel by American postmodern horror writer Mark Z Danielewski.”
      “Quinca mirifica exhibits solitary behavior and crypticness, which is due to its black coloration and seeming tendency to remain hidden in dark reef overhangs or crevices.”
encryptions
  1. plural of encryption
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Why did both card designers tag the architecture in this landscape with encryptions of Irishness that are not, strictly speaking, accurate?”
      “Apple refused to carve a back door into its encryptions, arguing that such a route could be used by bad guys too.”
      “Manage password and encryptions more easily through the IBM SPSS Data Collection Interviewer Configuration Wizard.”
decryptions
encryptors
  1. plural of encryptor
encrypters
  1. plural of encrypter
decrypters
  1. plural of decrypter
decryptors
  1. plural of decryptor
cryptics
  1. plural of cryptic
  2. Examples:
    1. “This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days.”
crypts
  1. plural of crypt
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It's not that uncommon to get some mummification in church crypts, but to get such good mummification with so many bodies is quite exceptional.”
      “In Mexico, Cuba, Argentina, and Venezuela they established their own burial crypts and cemeteries.”
      “Each tonsil has an irregular number of ingrowths of the surface epithelium known as tonsillar crypts.”
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