If you decipher a piece of writing or a message, you work out what it says, even though it is very difficult to read or understand. I'm still no closer to deciphering the code
read with difficulty; "Can you decipher this letter?"; "The archeologist traced the hieroglyphs"
To turn an enciphered message back into the original message Formally, the term refers only to the intended receiver who knows the key required to obtain the plaintext, but informally it also refers to the process of cryptanalysis, in which the decipherment is performed by an enemy interceptor
To turn an enciphered message back into the original message Formally, the term refers only to the intended reciever who knows the key required to obtain the plaintext, but informally it also refers to the process of cryptanalysis, in which the decipherment is performed by an enemy interceptor
[To] convert enciphered text to the equivalent plain text by means of a cipher system [NIS] Note: This does not include solution by cryptanalysis
To find out, so as to be able to make known the meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold