Re: Tales from the "_ _ _ crypt"
Anybody care to venture a guess as to which of the following is correct when you are referring to a step that "undoes" encryption:
- Decrypting
- Unencrypting
- De-encrypting
I'm not finding the answer in my style guides and I'm getting hits on each when I go out to the web...although "decrypting" appears to be the frontrunner if I were to judge the legitimacy of some of the hits I'm getting.
"Decrypting" is much the best choice of those three.
(I work for a cryptographer.)
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