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cryptanalyze

cryptanalyze verb: to perform cryptanalysis.

Verb

cryptanalyze (third-person singular simple present cryptanalyzes, present participle cryptanalyzing, simple past and past participle cryptanalyzed)

  1. To perform cryptanalysis
    • How the Enigma was broken is an unusual story like no other (at least among the cryptanalytic stories that have become known to date). In view of the units produced and the significance of these machines, every effort put into cryptanalyzing them was justified.2007, Reinhard Wobst, “Cryptology from the Romans to World War II”, in Angelika Shafir, transl., Cryptology Unlocked, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, →ISBN, section 5 (Domain of the Militaries: Ciphering...

Forms of cryptanalyze

third-person singular presentcryptanalyzes
present participlecryptanalyzing
past participlecryptanalyzed
pastcryptanalyzed

Origin of cryptanalyze

From crypt- + analyze.

Questions about cryptanalyze

What does cryptanalyze mean?
Cryptanalyze means to perform cryptanalysis.
What part of speech is cryptanalyze?
Cryptanalyze is a verb.
What is the past tense of cryptanalyze?
The past tense of cryptanalyze is cryptanalyzed.

Words near cryptanalyze in the dictionary

  1. cryptanalysts
  2. cryptanalytic
  3. cryptanalytical
  4. cryptanalytically
  5. cryptanalytics
  6. cryptanalyze
  7. cryptanalyzed
  8. cryptanalyzes
  9. cryptanalyzing
  10. cryptand
  11. cryptands

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