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CipherCipher Ci"pher, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ciphered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Ciphering.]
To use figures in a mathematical process; to do sums in
arithmetic.
``T was certain he could write and cipher too.
--Goldsmith. Cipher
Cipher Ci"pher, v. t.
1. To write in occult characters.
His notes he ciphered with Greek characters.
--Hayward.
2. To get by ciphering; as, to cipher out the answer.
3. To decipher. [Obs.] --Shak.
4. To designate by characters. [Obs.] --Shak.
Cipher
Cipher Ci"pher, a.
Of the nature of a cipher; of no weight or influence.
``Twelve cipher bishops.' --Milton.
Meaning of Ciphers from wikipedia
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ciphers used in the past are
sometimes known as
classical ciphers. They
include simple substitution ciphers (such as ROT13) and
transposition ciphers...
- the
original message.
Substitution ciphers can be
compared with
transposition ciphers. In a
transposition cipher, the
units of the
plaintext are rearranged...
- in the ROT13 system. As with all single-alphabet
substitution ciphers, the
Caesar cipher is
easily broken and in
modern practice offers essentially no...
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known until June 1976.
Symmetric key
ciphers are
implemented as
either block ciphers or
stream ciphers. A
block cipher enciphers input in
blocks of plaintext...
- than
block ciphers and have
lower hardware complexity. However,
stream ciphers can be
susceptible to
security breaches (see
stream cipher attacks); for...
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Random House. pp. 63–78. ISBN 0-385-49532-3. Codes,
Ciphers, &
Codebreaking (The Rise Of
Field Ciphers) David, Kahn (1999). "Crises of the Union". The Codebreakers:...
- The
Beale ciphers are a set of
three ciphertexts, one of
which allegedly states the
location of a
buried treasure of gold,
silver and
jewels estimated...
- cryptography, a
block cipher is a
deterministic algorithm that
operates on fixed-length
groups of bits,
called blocks.
Block ciphers are the
elementary building...
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often included in children's
books on
ciphers and
secret writing. The
cipher is
believed to be an
ancient cipher and is said to have
originated with the...
- use
either stream ciphers or
block ciphers.
Stream ciphers encrypt the
digits (typically bytes), or
letters (in
substitution ciphers) of a
message one...
