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cryptanalysisThe art of recovering original data (the plaintext) that has been encrypted (turned into ciphertext) without having access to the correct key used in the encryption process. When new encryption algorithms are introduced, cryptanalysis determines how hard it is to break the code. See encryption. cryptanalysis [‚krip·tə′nal·ə·səs] (communications) Steps and operations performed in converting encrypted messages into plain text without previous knowledge of the key employed.
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| As she goes through her vaguely sinister mind-camp experience, her thoughts return repeatedly to her own unusual background: a treasure-seeking father, a cryptanalyst grandfather, and a mathematician grandmother striving to prove the Riemann hypothesis, perhaps the most famous unsolved problem in mathematics. Tom promises the dying man that he will, reports the murder, and then takes the notebook to cryptanalyst Wyman Ford, a former CIA agent. Also included were interviews and conversations with the Liberty's surviving cryptanalysts and other specialists. |
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