cryptanalyze

English

Etymology

From crypt- +‎ analyze.

Verb

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

1. To perform cryptanalysis
   • 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 Cylinders, Rotor Machines, and the Enigma), subsection 2 (The Cryptanalysis of Enigma), page 45:

     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.