1.   Cecil Phillips thrived on the cerebral challenge of cracking Soviet codes.

2.   He cracked that code in a hurry!

3.   Historians used the Rosetta stone to crack the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics.

4.   It took them nearly two months to crack the code.

5.   Besides Wagner, the other researchers who cracked the code were Bruce Schneier and John Kelsey of Counterpane Systems, a Minneapolis consulting firm.

6.   A day after accepting a bag of sea squirts, Alonzo of Cafe Centro was still trying to crack the code.

7.   A bill in Congress would allow developers of the technology to export their products without giving law enforcement agencies a way to crack their codes during criminal investigations.

8.   A federal judge in Manhattan ruled Thursday that a Web site operator cannot distribute a computer program used to crack codes that prevent the piracy of movies.

9.   A high-quality encryption program can scramble a document so thoroughly that it would take a high-speed computer millions of years to crack the code.

10.   A potential eavesdropper lacks that key and thus cannot crack the code.