Etymology

Turingery

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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

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