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CribA crib is a section of an encoded or enciphered message that can easily be rendered into plain text, thus providing a tool whereby a skilled cryptanalyst can crack the entire code or message. A famous example of a "crib" from outside the world of espionage is the Rosetta Stone, used to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. Essentially a thank-you note from a group of priests to a magnanimous king, the stone was addressed to the second-century b.c. ruler Ptolemy V, who, like all the Ptolemies, spoke Greek rather than Egyptian. Therefore, the priests sent the note in Greek, as well as in hieroglyphics and demotic, a simplified version of hieroglyphic writing. Thus the French archaeologist Jean-François Champollion, who studied the Rosetta Stone in the early nineteenth century, was able to translate the Greek portion, and from this crack the code first of demotic, and then of hieroglyphics. Any time a force sends out a message whose content is predictable to the enemy, this offers an opportunity for a resourceful cryptanalyst to find a crib. Thus, when the German high command in World War II sent greetings to Adolf Hitler every April 20—the Fuhrer's birthday—it was fairly easy for Allied cryptanalysts to guess the gist of the message. This would have been so no matter how carefully it had been enciphered or encoded, but the Germans sometimes made things even easier by sending the same message in plain text. █ FURTHER READING:BOOKS:Kahn, David. Kahn on Codes: Secrets of the New Cryptology. New York: Macmillan, 1983. Konheim, Alan G. Cryptography: A Primer. New York: Wiley, 1981. Lubbe, J. C. A. van der. Basic Methods of Cryptography. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Newton, David E. Encyclopedia of Cryptology. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997. SEE ALSO |
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"Crib." Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Crib." Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403300193.html "Crib." Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security. 2004. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3403300193.html |
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crib / krib/ • n. 1. a young child's bed with barred or latticed sides. ∎ a barred container or rack for animal fodder; a manger. 2. inf. unfair use of notes on an examination or schoolwork. ∎ inf. Brit. a trot: an English crib of Caesar's Gallic Wars. ∎ a thing that has been plagiarized. 3. inf. an apartment or house. 4. short for cribbage. ∎ the cards discarded by the players at cribbage, counting to the dealer. 5. (also crib·work) a heavy timber framework used in foundations for a building or to line a mine shaft. • v. (cribbed , crib·bing ) [tr.] 1. inf. copy (another person's work) illicitly or without acknowledgment: he was taking an exam and didn't want anybody to crib the answers from him | [intr.] he often cribbed from other researchers. ∎ archaic steal. 2. archaic restrain. DERIVATIVES: crib·ber / ˈkribər/ n. |
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"crib." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "crib." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-crib.html "crib." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-crib.html |
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crib rack for fodder, manger OE.; ox-stall; †wicker basket XIV; cabin, hovel XVI; child's bed XVII. OE. crib(b) = OS. kribbia, OHG. krippa (G. krippe); beside OE. crybb (also repr. by crib in standard Eng.) = MLG. krübbe, Du. krub.
Hence crib vb. †feed as at a manger XV; confine narrowly XVII; pilfer, thieve XVIII (prob. orig. thieves' cant from the sense ‘basket’ of the sb.). |
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T. F. HOAD. "crib." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "crib." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-crib.html T. F. HOAD. "crib." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-crib.html |
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crib. In the W. Church by popular custom a representation of the crib (or manger) in which Christ was laid at His birth, with a model of the Holy Child, is placed in church on Christmas Eve. St Francis of Assisi is thought to have made the first model of the crib at Greccio in 1223.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "crib." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "crib." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-crib.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "crib." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-crib.html |
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crib n. an underground ditch or trenchlike structure designed for the discharge of low- and intermediate-level liquid nuclear wastes directly into the ground. A crib is about 20 feet deep and up to 1,400 feet long, lined with rock and soil.
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"crib." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "crib." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-crib.html "crib." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-crib.html |
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"crib." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "crib." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-crib.html "crib." The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. 2006. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O225-crib.html |
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•bib, crib, dib, fib, glib, jib, lib, nib, rib, sib, snib, squib
•memsahib • Carib • sparerib
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"crib." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "crib." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-crib.html "crib." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-crib.html |
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CRIB Current Research in Britain (publication)
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FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "CRIB." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "CRIB." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-CRIB.html FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH. "CRIB." The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations. 1998. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O25-CRIB.html |
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