Turingery

English

Etymology

From Turing +‎ -ery, after its inventor Alan Turing.

Noun

Turingery (uncountable)

  1. (cryptography) A manual cryptanalysis technique used in breaking the Lorenz cipher during World War II, based on deducing the wheel settings of the machine that did the encryption.

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