"A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group."
These are languages that only a certain group of people can understand, such as argot used by criminals and thieves or the slang used by teenagers.
Cryptography: The art of writing or solving codes and ciphers.
Steganography: The practice of concealing a message, image or file within another message, image or file.
Ciphertext: A message that has been encrypted or encoded.
Plaintext: The original message before it has been encrypted or encoded.
Encryption Algorithms: A set of rules or instructions that are used to encrypt or encode a message in a specific way.
Decryption Algorithms: A set of rules or instructions that are used to decrypt or decode an encrypted message in a specific way.
Key: A piece of information that is used to encrypt or decrypt a message.
Symmetric Key Cryptography: A type of encryption where the same key is used to encrypt and decrypt a message.
Asymmetric Key Cryptography: A type of encryption where two different keys, a public key and a private key, are used to encrypt and decrypt a message.
Public Key: A key that is used to encrypt a message and can be freely distributed.
Private Key: A key that is used to decrypt a message and must be kept secret.
Hashing: A process of taking input data and transforming it into a fixed size output, often used for checking message integrity.
Digital Signatures: A mathematical technique used to verify the authenticity of a digital message or document.
Authentication: The process of verifying the identity of a user or system.
Authorization: The process of granting or denying access to a user or system.
Cryptography: It is the study of secret writing and communication methods, including codes, ciphers, and other cryptographic techniques used to protect information from unauthorized access.
Linguistics: It is a study of the structure, meaning, and use of languages, including the analysis of their syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
Computational Linguistics: It is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the development of algorithms and computational models for analyzing natural language data.
Anthropology: It is a study of human societies and cultures, including their beliefs, values, customs, and practices.
History: It is a study of past events and their impact on society, including the development and use of secret codes and communication methods throughout history.
Intelligence Studies: It is an interdisciplinary field that includes the study of intelligence gathering, analysis, and dissemination.
Mathematics: It is a study of numbers, quantity, and mathematical structures, including the development of mathematical algorithms used in cryptography.
Philosophy: It is a study of knowledge, existence, and value, including the philosophical implications of secret language and communication methods.
Psychology: It is a study of human behavior, including the psychological factors that influence language acquisition and use.
Semiotics: It is a study of signs and symbols, including their meaning and interpretation in various cultural contexts.
"Employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group."
"It may also be called a cryptolect, argot, pseudo-language, anti-language or secret language."
"Each term differs slightly in meaning."
"Richard Rorty defines cant."
"'Cant,' in the sense in which Samuel Johnson exclaims, 'Clear your mind of cant,' means, in other words, something like that which 'people usually say without thinking, the standard thing to say, what one normally says.'"
"In Heideggerian terms, it is what 'das Man' says."
"Samuel Johnson exclaims, 'Clear your mind of cant.'"
"What one normally says."
"To exclude or mislead people outside the group."
"A cant is the jargon or language of a group."
"To exclude or mislead people outside the group."
"A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. A secret language is also used to describe a cant."
"It means, in other words, something like that which 'people usually say without thinking, the standard thing to say, what one normally says.'"
"It is what 'das Man' says."
"Cant means something like that which 'people usually say without thinking.'"
"To exclude or mislead people outside the group."
"Employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group."
"'Clear your mind of cant' means, in other words, something like that which 'people usually say without thinking.'"
"A cant is the jargon or language of a group."