encipher
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“And of course, what they mean by that is enciphered messages.”
From Scientific American • Jun. 2, 2023
He helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine, and so shortening World War Two and saving lives.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2022
The work of Turing helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2021
“We looked at the internal operations, and the dependencies with each step,” Spoerndli said, and became convinced they could crack the code by comparing only 100 characters of enciphered text to an underlying, unencrypted message.
From Washington Post • Feb. 11, 2020
“When this was first encountered, and I had puzzled over it for all the time I could spare,” Elizebeth wrote, “I decided to make the assumption that it was enciphered code.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
Vocabulary lists containing encipher
Vocabulary Video Contest (2013) - List 1
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The Bletchley Riddle
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2014 Vocabulary Video Contest (A-L)
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