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Noun

  1. The science of analyzing and breaking of codes and ciphers.


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et:cryptanalysis vi:cryptanalysis zh:cryptanalysis

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English cryptanalysis \crypt"a*nal"y*sis\, n.
1. the science which studies methods to discovering the
secret meaning of encrypted messages for which one does
not possess the secret decoding information (called the
key).
[PJC]

2. the methods and procedures used to discover the secret
meaning hidden in encrypted messages.
[PJC] Cryptic
WordNet cryptanalysis
n : the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers
and cryptograms [syn: cryptanalytics, cryptography, cryptology]
FOLDOC cryptanalysis

The branch of cryptography concerned with decoding encrypted
messages when you're not supposed to be able to.

(1994-12-06)


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