What is Cryptanalysis?
Cryptanalysis is the science of making encrypted data unencrypted.
Cryptanalysts
Practitioners of cryptanalysis are known as cryptanalysts.
Cryptanalysis in Context
A cryptographer will use cryptography to convert plaintext into ciphertext and a cryptanalyst will use cryptanalysis to attempt to turn that ciphertext back into plaintext.
Both the cryptographer and the cryptanalyst are cryptologists. Cryptography and cryptanalysis are the two sides of cryptology.
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