RE: Tales from the "_ _ _ crypt"

["Stuart Rogers" <srogers -at- phoenix-geophysics -dot- com>]

I'd go back to the meanings of the prefixes, "un-" meaning "not" and
"de-" meaning "do the opposite of." This would suggest that a message is
unencrypted until you encrypt it, after which you decrypt it. English
generally doesn't use a hyphen after a short prefix unless the writer is
inventing an expression: "de-Britneying the air waves."

My $.02

Stuart Rogers
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David
Sent: April 8, 2002 5:30 PM
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Subject: 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



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