Code-breaking

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  code-breaking \code"-break`ing\, n.
     A process of discovering the content of an encoded message or
     the nature of a {code}[5]. The method used may be
     surreptitious, or may use sophisticated mathematical and
     computational techniques to discover the code.
     [PJC]