cryptanalysis

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the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms

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Although government intelligence cryptanalysts were systematically breaking nomenclators by the mid-sixteenth century, and superior systems had been available since 1467, the usual response to cryptanalysis was simply to make the tables larger. Source: Internet

Attempt at cryptanalysis To continue the example from above, suppose Eve intercepts Alice's ciphertext: "EQNVZ". Source: Internet

Development of SIGINT (signals intelligence) and cryptanalysis enabled the countering process of decryption. Source: Internet

Alan Turing 's use of probability in cryptanalysis See Banburismus contributed to its design. Source: Internet

A similar reduction in data complexity can be obtained in a chosen-plaintext variant of linear cryptanalysis (Knudsen and Mathiassen, 2000). Source: Internet

Both A5/1 and A5/2 algorithms are broken, and their cryptanalysis has been considered in the literature. Source: Internet

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