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decrypt
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. convert code into ordinary language [syn: decode , decipher ] [ant: encode ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ B uses the secret private key to decrypt the message and read it. ▪ Depending on circumstances, it can often decrypt scrambled data, for a fee, of course. ▪ If the key was properly computed, the user can decrypt the message. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to solve a cryptogram," 1936, from de- + cryptogram . Related: Decrypted ; decrypting .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
decrypt \decrypt\ v. to convert from a coded form into the original; -- of communications. Inverse of encrypt. Syn: decode, decipher[WE1].
Usage examples of decrypt.
NSA team tested the land-based circuits and found that signals from teletypewriters that were rapping out decrypted, highly secret messages were leaking onto unencrypted voice channels.
Because brute-force computers broke codes by examining cleartext for identifiable word patterns, Harne proposed an encryption algorithm that, in addition to encrypting, shifted decrypted cleartext over a time variant.
But after TRANSLTR decrypted the data streams, analysts immediately recognized the sequence as a network-synchronized countdown.
Skipjack could be decrypted via a secret password known only to the NSA.
It was a fragile glass and electro-optic key that decrypted all the command systems on the ship.
Communications Watch Officer Joe Kent said as he waited by a machine that looked for all the world like an ordinary computer printer, quietly chattering as it decrypted and stored the high priority message.
It came in less than two seconds, with a slight audible ping as the EL-3 on his radio decrypted the voice of Lieutenant Colonel Newman.
Maybe you pulled the files, but you never decrypted them, you never scanned them.
The release of decrypted Soviet cables was barely mentioned by the New York Times.
Almost fifty years later, the release of the decrypted Soviet cables proved indisputably that Hiss was a Soviet spy, sending a shock wave through the New York Times building.
It turned out that, all along, there was also evidence in the form of decrypted Soviet cables to their agents in America.
The disgorging of decrypted Soviet cables forced the professors to revise that assessment.
But after TRANSLTR decrypted the data streams,analysts immediately recognized the sequence as anetwork-synchronized countdown.
Skipjack could be decrypted via a secretpassword known only to the NSA.
Even if we never decrypted the message contents, the receipt of such a signal would transform our view of the Universe and ourselves.