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  • verb Present participle of decrypt.

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Examples

  • Turnbull: The terms and conditions of being able to provide access to the method of decrypting is that there must be mechanisms used in the pathway the content takes to take it to the point of access that avoid copying.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • At the very least, I want a better explanation of the difference between "decrypting" and, say, "guessing."

    Archive 2005-12-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2005

  • At the very least, I want a better explanation of the difference between "decrypting" and, say, "guessing."

    Using correct password doesn't violate DMCA Rebecca Tushnet 2005

  • There's no such thing as 'decrypting' an MD5, since MD5 is a one-way hashing function, not an encryption scheme.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

  • There's no such thing as 'decrypting' an MD5, since MD5 is a one-way hashing function, not an encryption scheme.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

  • There's no such thing as 'decrypting' an MD5, since MD5 is a one-way hashing function, not an encryption scheme.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

  • Considering everything that happened in the years following that find and the genetic links between your people and the Shedai, one would think Tholians ideally suited for decrypting that information.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony Dayton Ward 2011

  • Puporting to be a decoded translation of a series of "extra" episodes of The Odyssey (decoded because, according to the translator, who provides an introduction to the book that has now been made of them, they have existed as an encrypted manuscript the means of decrypting which has only recently been discovered), it bears no resemblance to the sort of unified narrative most readers expect to find in a novel.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • The new information is the result of five weeks of round-the-clock work by a CIA-led team of data analysts, cyber experts and translators who are 95 percent finished decrypting and translating the years of material and expect to complete the effort by mid-June, two U.S. officials say.

    Osama Bin Laden Documents: U.S. Tracking Possible New Terror Targets, Stepping Up Surveillance The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • For instance, “Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by gener­ating random alphanu­meric text of an appro­priate length and then decrypting it”.

    hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Bruce Schneier Talks Airport Security on As it Happens 2010

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