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cryptologyThe science of developing secret codes and/or the use of those codes in encryption systems. See cryptography. cryptology [krip′täl·ə·jē] (communications) The science of preparing messages in forms which are intended to be unintelligible to those not privy to the secrets of the form, and of deciphering such messages.
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| Many questions surrounded the oddly illustrated work, named for discoverer William Voynich, as cryptologists around the world worked to find a key. And all the skill of the American naval cryptologists in predicting the Japanese attack on Midway might not have staved off defeat but for the sheer good fortune of the last flight of American warplanes in finding Admiral Nagumo's carriers with their decks still in easily inflammable chaos from the hasty attempt to re-arm the strike aircraft to attack American ships rather than land installations. NSA cryptologists (experts in secret code) can crack almost any code an enemy might use. |
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