codebreaker
Decrypts secret messages
A codebreaker is someone who deciphers encrypted messages or cracks secret codes.
The term evokes wartime cryptanalysts like those at Bletchley Park who broke the Enigma cipher.
More broadly, codebreaker applies to anyone who solves puzzles or figures out hidden patterns: She's a natural codebreaker—solved the riddle in seconds.
Hidden writing system
- decryptionConverting ciphertext to plaintext
- encryptionConverting data into code
- plaintextUnencoded readable information
- ciphertextEncoded, unreadable message
cryptogram · substitution · transposition · codebook · key · algorithm · cryptology · Enigma
cipher
Hidden writing system
- decryptionConverting ciphertext to plaintext
- encryptionConverting data into code
- plaintextUnencoded readable information
ciphertext · cryptogram · substitution · transposition · codebook · key · algorithm · cryptology · Enigma · Turing
enigma
Something hard to fathom
- riddlePuzzling question to solve
- brainteaserPuzzle demanding clever thought
- cryptogramCoded message puzzle
logic · conundrum · challenge · mystery · solution · clue · pattern · deduction · wordplay · anagram
spy
Covert information gatherer
- intelligenceMental ability, cognitive capacity
- agentOne who acts independently
- covertIntentionally concealed
CIA · KGB · MI6 · Mossad · surveillance · operative · handler · informant · mole · infiltration
- codes and cipherscipher, decrypt, encrypt, ciphertext, plaintext
- puzzlerspuzzle master, brainteasers, brain-teasers, conundrums, enigmas
- secret codescipher, secret codes, password, passphrase, coded messages
- wartime jobssoldier, medic, general, sergeant, nurse
- codebreakerscryptanalysts, decoders, cryptanalyst, cryptographers, decryptor
- wrestling movessuplex, powerbomb, piledriver, clothesline, dropkick