codebreaking
Noun
Meaning
codebreaking (uncountable)
The decipherment of a code.
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Examples
From this early interest, he demonstrated his skill at codebreaking by deciphering the secret price codes which his father wrote inside the covers of books.
German codebreaking efforts at B-Dienst had succeeded in deciphering the British Naval Cypher No. 3, allowing the Germans to estimate where and when convoys could be expected.
ERA had formed out of a former United States Navy laboratory that had built codebreaking machines, a tradition ERA carried on when such work was available.
Shortly afterwards, Edward Travis (then operational head of Bletchley Park) asked Newman to lead research into mechanised codebreaking.
The British in particular built up great expertise in the newly emerging field of signals intelligence and codebreaking.
The British rapidly built up great expertise in the newly emerging field of signals intelligence and codebreaking.