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| - Cryptanalysis is
- Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to loosen" or "to untie") is the art and science of analyzing information systems in order to study the hidden aspects of the systems. Cryptanalysis is used to breach cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages, even if the cryptographic key is unknown.
- Cryptanalysis was a branch of Imperial Intelligence's Analysis Bureau. Informally known as "the Crypt," the personnel referred to themselves as lignyots, a term which no one else deciphered the meaning of. Cryptanalysis cultivated a reputation for the bizarre; they would send scandocs with simple encryption codes that would produce unflattering holos of the recipient if the code was not broken fast enough. They would also break communications security and forge inflammatory messages between branches. They had a habit of moving the entrance to their offices, or relocating entirely, leaving only a scandoc with clues to their new location. Other branches continually complained about Crypt's antics to the Ubiqtorate, but the lignyots defended their behavior by claiming that the time-sensitive
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| - Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, "hidden", and analýein, "to loosen" or "to untie") is the art and science of analyzing information systems in order to study the hidden aspects of the systems. Cryptanalysis is used to breach cryptographic security systems and gain access to the contents of encrypted messages, even if the cryptographic key is unknown. In addition to mathematical analysis of cryptographic algorithms, cryptanalysis also includes the study of side-channel attacks that do not target weaknesses in the cryptographic algorithms themselves, but instead exploit weaknesses in their implementation. Even though the goal has been the same, the methods and techniques of cryptanalysis have changed drastically through the history of cryptography, adapting to increasing cryptographic complexity, ranging from the pen-and-paper methods of the past, through machines like Bombes and Colossus computers at Bletchley Park in World War II, to the mathematically advanced computerized schemes of the present. Methods for breaking modern cryptosystems often involve solving carefully constructed problems in pure mathematics, the best-known being integer factorization.
- Cryptanalysis is
- Cryptanalysis was a branch of Imperial Intelligence's Analysis Bureau. Informally known as "the Crypt," the personnel referred to themselves as lignyots, a term which no one else deciphered the meaning of. Cryptanalysis cultivated a reputation for the bizarre; they would send scandocs with simple encryption codes that would produce unflattering holos of the recipient if the code was not broken fast enough. They would also break communications security and forge inflammatory messages between branches. They had a habit of moving the entrance to their offices, or relocating entirely, leaving only a scandoc with clues to their new location. Other branches continually complained about Crypt's antics to the Ubiqtorate, but the lignyots defended their behavior by claiming that the time-sensitive nature of their work—cracking codes and ciphers discovered by Media and Signal—entitled them to be a little eccentric. Ubiqtorate, however, saw Crypt's antics as an opportunity, and began to treat each new prank as a problem to be solved as if it were an enemy operation, and would random assign the problem to a different branch to deal with. On one occasion, Assassination found and liquidated one of Crypt's installations after they had moved. Luke Skywalker implied that the entire division's ability to decipher codes and ciphers was inferior compared to his astromech droid R2-D2.
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