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cryptanalyze en · VERB

Etymology

From crypt- + analyze.

Meanings

1. To perform cryptanalysis
   • How the Enigma was broken is an unusual story like no other (at least among the cryptanalytic stories that have become known to date). In view of the units produced and the significance of these machines, every effort put into cryptanalyzing them was justified. 2007, Reinhard Wobst, “Cryptology from the Romans to World War II”, in Angelika Shafir, transl., Cryptology Unlocked, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, section 5 (Domain of the Militaries: Ciphering Cylinders, Rotor Machines, and the Enigma), subsection 2 (The Cryptanalysis of Enigma), page 45:

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