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- noun A
cryptanalyst , one who decodes messages without thekey .
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Examples
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The mathematician and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing is to be celebrated on a special stamp as an online petition calls for a posthumous pardon to quash his conviction for gross indecency.
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Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in ...
Boing Boing 2009
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Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in ...
Boing Boing 2009
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In a speech to BETT, a trade fair which showcases educational technology, Gove will say Britain should revive the legacy of the mathematician and wartime codebreaker Alan Turing by creating a generation of young people able to work at the forefront of technological change.
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Bletchley Park's Colossus codebreaker to race modern PC in ...
Boing Boing 2009
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You know, a struggle between a codemaker and a codebreaker.
A Conversation with Edmundo Paz Soldán about Turing's Delirium 2010
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Almost as good ... her father was a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and also the officer who took Rudolf Hess into captivity.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams, whose decomposing body was found locked inside a sports bag four months ago, is the latest addition to a small group whose unexplained deaths provide fodder for conspiracy theorists.
MI6 codebreaker's bizarre death provides fodder for conspiracy theories 2010
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In Russian secret terminology a shift odtel is a codebreaker.
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And further into the book, a number of pages were devoted to information regarding Dorothy Edgers, a civilian codebreaker who occupied the desk right next to mine.
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