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  • adjective Of or relating to cryptology.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to cryptanalysis

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Examples

  • Blair appears not to be fighting for control of Pentagon-based intelligence assets — like the spy satellites of the National Reconnaisance Office or the vast cryptological apparatus of the National Security Agency — with Defense Secretary Bob Gates, even though the Pentagon is estimated to control between 85 and 90 percent of the intelligence budget.

    There’s A War Going Down Between My Brothers Tonight | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • The root server could guarantee that it was communicating with the real .com name server, and .com would receive cryptological assurance that it was dealing with, say, the real Google.

    Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web 2008

  • The NSA routinely provides its analysis and other cryptological work to the Pentagon and other government agencies.

    USATODAY.com - Questions and answers about the NSA phone record collection program 2006

  • The root server could guarantee that it was communicating with the real .com name server, and .com would receive cryptological assurance that it was dealing with, say, the real Google.

    Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web 2008

  • Turing was dismissed from his cryptological post and --to avoid imprisonment-- he submitted to chemical treatment to submerge his sexuality.

    Archive 2004-08-01 2004

  • CRYPTO: short for some variation of cryptological, the magic set of codes that makes a circuit impossible for anyone else to understand.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • Benito, Manoel, and Fragoso stood round him, while Joam Dacosta clasped Yaquita to his heart, he first unraveled the last paragraph of the document by means of the number, and as the words appeared by the institution of the true letters for the cryptological ones, he divided and punctuated them, and then read it out in a loud voice.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • ‘Tijuco,’ ‘Dacosta,’ and others; and in putting down their cryptological equivalents the number could be arrived at.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • CRYPTO: Short for some variation of cryptological, the magic set of codes that makes a circuit impossible for anyone else to understand.

    Hellfire Douglass, Keith 2002

  • Botchup could swear there were patterns in it, but the cryptological analysis devices in the company's arsenal could detect no meaning in them.

    Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001

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