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  1. Science of creating and reading codes; for
  2. example, those produced by the Enigma coding
  3. machine used by the Germans in World War II
  4. (as in Ultra) and those used in commerce by
  5. banks encoding electronic fund-transfer
  6. messages, business firms sending
  7. computer-conveyed memos between headquarters,
  8. and in the growing field of electronic mail.
  9. No method of encrypting is completely
  10. unbreakable, but decoding can be made
  11. extremely complex and time consuming.
  12.