plus/minus epsilon

We know that a data structure is a particular way of organizing data so that we can efficiently solve a problem with it. Perhaps a cryptographic data structure would just be the same thing, but with a notion of security determined by an adversary's ability to win a certain game.

In a sense, they're minimal cryptosystems that can be glued together into more complex cryptosystems similar to the way that fundamental data structures can be glued together to give solutions to increasingly complicated problems.