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This question is tagged with both encryption and cryptography.
Looking at the description of the tags, it seems cryptography is intended to be a super-set of of encryption. Is that accurate?
Should it be a tag synonym, or should they be applied to different types of questions? If so, what sorts of questions should each be applied to?
My initial guess is that question should just have encryption applied to it.
Yes, cryptography is a super-set of encryption in much the same way that java might be considered a super-set of jdbc or javascript is a super-set of jquery. There's nothing wrong with having both tags, as some experts in cryptography might not be following encryption or vice-versa, and they are not exact synonyms.
