The phrase "a code break" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to programming, cryptography, or any situation where a code or system is interrupted or compromised.
Example: "The security team discovered a code break that allowed unauthorized access to the system."
Alternatives: "a code breach" or "a code interruption".
For those who don't know the Ruby Redfort books, Ruby comes across superficially as an average teenage girl, but she is far from average, a code breaking genius working for Spectrum 8, who puts her life on the line on a regular basis.
"There is nothing like seeing a code broken, that is really the absolute tops," Batey told Smith in his 1998 book "Station X: The Code Breakers of Bletchley Park".
Laden with dozens of such words, Anathem is as much a code-breaking experience as Cryptonomicon, due to the teasing way Stephenson's neologisms gradually unlock themselves.
At issue was the distribution of a code-breaking computer program that can be used to copy movies from digital versatile discs, or DVD's.
In March 1940, Turing's first Bombe, a code-breaking machine, was installed at Bletchley Park; improvements suggested by British mathematician Gordon Welchman were incorporated by August.
Some of its pages change into large envelopes from which young readers can to pull out invitations, a letter written in code with a code-breaking wheel attached, plus tickets and a programme for Peppa's forthcoming home pantomime.
George Herbert, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, James Merrill — in many cases a savvy reader could, with all the quiet exultation of a code-breaking cryptographer, identify the author purely through paired rhyme-words, independent of what the poem was actually about.
Among its online displays is a French cipher wheel of a type described by Thomas Jefferson; the "black chamber," a code-breaking operation in the 1920's; Allied and enemy cipher machines of World War II; and perhaps the greatest "machine" of all, the American Indian "code talkers," the Navajos and other tribal peoples whose communications in both world wars were never broken.
After making a copy of the file, the hacker ran it through a code-breaking program that exposed the passwords as plain text.
