What is "codewords"

Usage examples of "codewords".

The International Regulations on Sigint govern the actions of the multinational cyberspies, from the wording of their indoctrination oaths to the format of their intercept forms to their unique cryptospeak of codewords and covernames.

Some are indoctrinated for additional codewords, such as Gamma, which means that the information comes from a particularly sensitive source, such as internal foreign communications systems or cipher systems that NSA was able to defeat.

What few histories exist are so highly classified with multiple codewords that almost no one has access to them.

So the only codewords we know for certain are for the exact day and time that Mavra Chang took off.

Tom Zwingler smiled as a world of comforting certainties, codewords and organization reasserted itself for him.

They did, in fact, know the codewords, because she'd said them and used them consciously in the escape.