{"id":876,"date":"2026-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/science-word-of-the-day-cryptology\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:00:00","slug":"science-word-of-the-day-cryptology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/science-word-of-the-day-cryptology\/","title":{"rendered":"Science word of the day: Cryptology"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><strong>Science word of the day: <\/strong>Cryptology<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pronunciation: <\/strong>Krip-TAH&#8217;-leh-jee<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means: <\/strong>Cryptology is the study of secret codes \u202a\u2014\u202c both making them (cryptography) and breaking them (cryptanalysis). Once associated with spy networks&#8217; secret codes and ciphers, cryptology now often refers to the computer algorithms used to encrypt data to protect passwords and personal information from prying eyes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>How to use it in a sentence: <\/strong>Native American soldiers known as &#8220;code talkers&#8221; harnessed <em>cryptology<\/em> in World War II by developing codes and ciphers based on their Indigenous languages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you crack our science word of the day puzzle, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/chain-science-word-of-the-day-puzzle\"><u><strong>Chain Word<\/strong><\/u><\/a><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height: 250px\">\n<div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-W2rM4W\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science word of the day: Cryptology Pronunciation: Krip-TAH&#8217;-leh-jee What it means: Cryptology is the study of secret codes \u202a\u2014\u202c both making them (cryptography) and breaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}