I am looking for a word that describes both of these activities, however the word coding does not seem to be suitable.
Likewise with encryption and decryption, cryption does not work well.
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Sign up to join this communityI am looking for a word that describes both of these activities, however the word coding does not seem to be suitable.
Likewise with encryption and decryption, cryption does not work well.
Cryptography
is the study of encryption and decryption.
codec
is software/hardware that does both encoding and decoding.
Encode means : "To translate information into code"
Decode means : "To translate code into information"
Therefore translate would be used to describe them both.
Since translate may seem vague I would suggest some synonyms: transcribe, transpose, or convert.
Would transcoding be suitable in your context ?
Why does everyone and OP have a problem with "coding". This is the correct term for encoding and decoding. For example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coding_theory