code breakers
Decode secret messages
Code breakers are people who decipher encrypted messages or crack secret codes.
The term evokes World War II cryptanalysts at Bletchley Park who broke the Enigma cipher: The code breakers shortened the war by years.
It extends to anyone who solves puzzles or penetrates systems meant to exclude outsiders.
Also spelled codebreakers.
- cryptanalystsPeople who decipher encrypted messages
- enigmaSomething hard to fathom
- Bletchley ParkWWII British cryptanalysis site
- ciphersEncoded messages or zeroes
- decryptionConverting ciphertext to plaintext
Bletchley · Alan Turing · Turing · secret · intelligence · intelligence agency · intercepted · hidden messages · puzzles · messages · wartime · patterns · frequency · keys · cracking · espionage · military · World War II
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
- puzzlerspuzzle master, brainteasers, brain-teasers, conundrums, enigmas
- problem solverstroubleshooters, detectives, investigators, sleuths, debuggers
- Pacific WarPearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Midway, Okinawa, Guadalcanal
- wartime organizationsWar Department, USO, civil defense, Home Guard, Selective Service
- wartime womenwar nurses, army nurses, military nurses, flight nurses, nurse corps