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Science of creating and reading codes; for
example, those produced by the Enigma coding
machine used by the Germans in World War II
(as in Ultra) and those used in commerce by
banks encoding electronic fund-transfer
messages, business firms sending
computer-conveyed memos between headquarters,
and in the growing field of electronic mail.
No method of encrypting is completely
unbreakable, but decoding can be made
extremely complex and time consuming.