Sign up ×  Is it a multi-disciplinary, inter-disciplinary,
cross-disciplinary, or maybe even trans-disciplinary? What are
the basis to describe each kind? I mean, how can we infer by
which disciplinary field we can describe the cryptography?  I
got an answer saying that it is multi-disciplinary because it
contains multiple subjects like information theory, mathematics…
what about the other fields?  share|improve this question Sorry,
I don't really understand your question. Could you elaborate a
bit? (The question has an edit button.) It also looks at the
border to off-topic, though I can't say for sure. –  Paŭlo
Ebermann Mar 24 '13 at 22:51  1 Answer 1  up vote 3 down vote
accepted  It is multidisciplinary because it's a branch of
mathematics and freely borrows from other branches such as
statistics or algorithms.  I'm not so sure if it's cross-
disciplinary. Although companies that make secure products (ie.
products that use crypto facilities) employ cryptographers,
cryptography in itself is a purely theoreti