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cryptanalysis
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The 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 - The branch of cryptography concerned with decoding encrypted messages when you're not supposed to be able to.
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Additionally, the Rijndael submitters even stated "the number of rounds of Rijndael provides a sufficient margin of security with respect to cryptanalytic attack.
Report on the Development of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by Roback, Edward / Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology
And one finds this theme sounded again and again - especially when one of the Waterhouse males has to deal with the opposite sex (which turns out to be a very special kind of cryptanalytic problem for each of them).
Cryptonomicon by Godwin, Mike / Reason
In February 2005, Chinese researchers announced cryptanalytic findings that revealed significant weaknesses in the popular SHA-0 and SHA-1 hashing algorithms.
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