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It's hard enough to break a code when you have the complete message.

Breaking a code this way could take hundreds of hours.

"A bad lawyer will find a way to break a code of ethics.

Maybe I'm breaking a code here, an unspoken lodge law.

Breaking a code involves stripping away the "noise" to find the sense.

David said that since the other two shooters were still alive, it would break a code of conduct for him to identify them.

They assume that if breaking a code requires enough calculations, even the best computers will not be able to do it.

Breaking a code is clear proof that a code isn't strong.

He has to break a code written secretly into a copy of Paradise Lost to work out what is going on.

Derek did more than break a code.

If you break a code or decode a secret message, you discover its meaning.

You can't break a code on a single transmission.'

I had always understood that was what breaking a code meant, but it was no time for semantics.

Tiltman hadn't broken a code in several hours and might be suffering from withdrawal symptoms.

When the brain is properly entrained with a sound, it can correctly separate and interpret the signal, almost like breaking a code.

Something about breaking a code.

Yet on it lay the clue to breaking a code that baffled scholars for centuries: Egyptian hieroglyphs.

However, when Stanley shows up to help break a code and work with Tara, her relationship with Adam ends.

But everyone could see Chappe's semaphore stations, so it was possible that someone could break a code and learn a secret.

After breaking a code, the four heroes escape from the HQ and activate a self-destruct mechanism.

Dr. Blaze said that the flaw he discovered in the Clipper design would not permit a third party to break a coded computer conversation.

Benson must break a code, the team does detective work, Benson impersonates powerful men and infiltrates Congress.

Mathematicians of the finest calibre were essential for what then seemed the almost impossible task of breaking a code with astronomical permutations.

Breaking a code means taking it apart to understand how it works, and then you can understand messages that are written in that code.

"How hard would it be to crack a code like that?"

These include spotting a liar, cracking a code and breaking into a safe.

It's like someone trying to crack a code by sheer brute-force computation.

Even the most untalented can eventually crack a code when it becomes blatant enough.

In her isolation and confusion, she'd decided she'd cracked a coded message from another dimension.

"It was like cracking a code," she said, "and once I got it, painting after painting began to reveal itself."

The equipment can make it difficult for law enforcement officials to crack a code when they suspect it is masking criminal or terrorist activities.

Townsend cracks a code in Old High Gallifreyan, proving they were created from the Doctor's memories and thus retain some elements of his knowledge.

To make it harder to crack a code value, meaningless additives (from a large table or book of five-digit numbers) were added arithmetically to each five-digit cipher.

Russian intelligence cracks a code my friends in the Sicherheitsdienst assured me was unbreakable, and suddenly the GRU sends their guy to Berlin to rat me out.

Because encryption techniques use complicated to encode data, it would take a normal computer several years to crack a code (which usually involves finding the two largest prime divisors of an incredibly large number).

Jekri saw it in her mind's eye- the late assassin, sweat on her brow, pretending to try to crack a code while all the while doing everything she could to prevent its being deciphered.

WITH the fervor of mad scientists trying to crack a code of nature, Wall Street's investment bankers are in a headlong race to find gold in the $400 billion Latin American bank debt.

A Man Who Has Seen It All Fashion people do not give up their sources readily, and so it is no surprise that getting Mohammed Bendraoua's telephone number is like cracking a code.

People don't really just want fair use, Peters says, they want to "crack a code in order to make fair use of content, but the content, for the most part, they can get in an unencrypted format.

The method favored by the F.B.I. is known as the key escrow, in which the key to cracking a code is kept with a third party that could hand it over quickly if law enforcement agencies demanded it.

When a 9-year-old autistic child named Simon (Miko Hughes) inadvertently cracks a code that protects the identity of American undercover agents, he becomes the target of the oily Nicholas Kudrow (Alex Baldwin).

The novel is about a fictional linguist, Richard Scott, and an assembled team of specialists who are in a race against time to crack a code found on ancient monuments around the world before an impending cataclysm predicted in mythology can strike.

Labels are flashed onto people's clothing to reveal the methods by which Holmes deduces history and character; pin patterns are painted on the screen as he tries to break into a phone; numbers float across his face as he cracks a code.

The most obvious and, in principle at least, simplest way of cracking a code is to steal the codebook through bribery, burglary, or raiding parties - procedures sometimes glorified by the phrase "practical cryptography" - and this is a weakness for both codes and ciphers, though codebooks are generally larger and used longer than cipher keys.