Obfuscation is the concealment of meaning in communication, making it confusing and harder to interpret. Communication is the process of conveying information from a sender to a receiver with the use of a medium in which the communicated information is understood the same way Confusion, of a Pathological degree usually refers to loss of orientation (ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time location and personal identity and Language interpreting or interpretation is the intellectual activity of facilitating oral and sign-language communication either simultaneously or consecutively between two

Obfuscation may be used for many purposes. Doctors have been accused of using jargon to conceal unpleasant facts from a patient. For Wikipedia jargon see WikipediaGlossary. For hacker slang see Jargon File. American author Michael Crichton has claimed that medical writing is a "highly skilled, calculated attempt to confuse the reader". John Michael Crichton, ˈkraɪtən, (born October 23 1942 is an American author Film producer, Film director, Medical doctor, and Television producer Medical writing is the activity of writing scientific documentation by someone who is a specialized writer (a medical writer) and is generally not one of the scientists ^[1] B. F. Skinner, noted psychologist, commented on medical notation as a form of multiple audience control which allows the doctor to communicate to the pharmacist things which might be opposed by the patient if they could understand it. Burrhus Frederic Skinner ( March 20, 1904 &ndash August 18 1990) was an influential American Psychologist, author ^[2] Similarly text-based language, like gyaru-moji and some forms of leet are obfuscated to make them incomprehensible to outsiders. Usually used in reference to a Computer application, especially a Computer game, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based is a style of obfuscated Japanese writing popular amongst Japanese school girls boys and other young people (See Cant (language. Leet or Eleet (sometimes rendered l33t, 1337, or 31337) also known as Leetspeak, is an Alphabet used primarily on the

In cryptography, obfuscation refers to encoding the input data before it is sent to a hash function or other encryption scheme. Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" A hash function is any well-defined procedure or mathematical function for turning some kind of Data into a relatively small integer, that may This technique helps to make brute force attacks unfeasible, as it is difficult to determine the correct cleartext. In Cryptanalysis, a brute force attack is a method of defeating a Cryptographic scheme by trying a large number of possibilities for example possible keys In Data communications, cleartext is the form of a message or data which is in a form that is immediately comprehensible to a human being without additional processing

In network security, obfuscation refers to methods used to obscure an attack payload from inspection by network protection systems. Network security consists of the provisions made in an underlying Computer network infrastructure policies adopted by the Network administrator to protect

See also

• Eschew obfuscation
• Plain English
• Politics and the English Language

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