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Cryptanalysis and Cryptanalyst

Cryptanalysis and Cryptanalyst definition - hacker

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Cryptanalysis, the process of breaking ciphertext, is conducted by an individual called a cryptanalyst.

See Also: Ciphertext.

Oracle Corporation. Oracle Security Server Concepts. [Online, 1997.] Oracle Corporation Website. http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/oracle/network803/A54088_01/ conc1.htm#438378.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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