A null cipher, also known as concealment cipher, is an ancient form of encryption where the plaintext is mixed with a large amount of non-cipher material...
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concealment, or null, cipher is any cipher which involves a number of nulls, or decoy letters. A null cipher could be plaintext words with nulls placed in designated...
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teleprinter communications during most of the 20th century. Null Cipher, a related cipher. Bacon, Francis (1605). The Proficience and Advancement of Learning...
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In modern cryptography, null encryption (or selecting null cipher or NONE cipher) is choosing not to use encryption in a system where various encryption...
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In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or...
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encryption MISTY1 Multiplex link encryption Net control station (NCS) Null cipher One-time pad Over the Air Rekeying (OTAR) Plaintext PPPoX Protected distribution...
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exposed, such words would first be concealed by code. The cipher clerk may also add entire null words, which were often chosen to make the ciphertext humorous...
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The Alberti Cipher, created in 1467 by Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti, was one of the first polyalphabetic ciphers. In the opening pages of his...
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In cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as Caesar's cipher, the shift cipher, Caesar's code, or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely...
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In cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of encrypting in which units of plaintext are replaced with the ciphertext, in a defined manner, with...
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Transport Layer Security (section Cipher)
obsolete features including compression, renegotiation, non-AEAD ciphers, null ciphers, non-PFS key exchange (among which are static RSA and static DH...
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Enigma machine (redirect from Enigma cipher machine)
The Enigma machine is a cipher device developed and used in the early- to mid-20th century to protect commercial, diplomatic, and military communication...
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The Playfair cipher or Playfair square or Wheatstone–Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique and was the first literal digram substitution...
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pigpen cipher (alternatively referred to as the masonic cipher, Freemason's cipher, Rosicrucian cipher, Napoleon cipher, and tic-tac-toe cipher) is a geometric...
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The Vigenère cipher (French pronunciation: [viʒnɛːʁ]) is a method of encrypting alphabetic text where each letter of the plaintext is encoded with a different...
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Hill cipher is a polygraphic substitution cipher based on linear algebra. Invented by Lester S. Hill in 1929, it was the first polygraphic cipher in which...
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A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key...
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The Great Cipher (French: Grand chiffre) was a nomenclator cipher developed by the Rossignols, several generations of whom served the French monarchs...
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The rail fence cipher (also called a zigzag cipher) is a classical type of transposition cipher. It derives its name from the manner in which encryption...
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polyalphabetic cipher is a substitution, using multiple substitution alphabets. The Vigenère cipher is probably the best-known example of a polyalphabetic cipher, though...
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Grille (cryptography) (redirect from Trellis cipher)
In the history of cryptography, a grille cipher was a technique for encrypting a plaintext by writing it onto a sheet of paper through a pierced sheet...
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suspicious cover text. This particular form of steganography is called a null cipher. Messages written in Morse code on yarn and then knitted into a piece...
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The Lorenz SZ40, SZ42a and SZ42b were German rotor stream cipher machines used by the German Army during World War II. They were developed by C. Lorenz...
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describes the same concept and was thus included in the paper's references. Null cipher – Simple form of encryption Email spam – Unsolicited messages sent by...
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cryptography include: A5/1 • A5/2 • ABA digital signature guidelines • ABC (stream cipher) • Abraham Sinkov • Acoustic cryptanalysis • Adaptive chosen-ciphertext...
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correct clear text, encoded once again as a simple substitution cipher (with two letters as nulls), although some details remain to be worked out. His solution...
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are nulls. Evidence for this is given by the author on p. 111 of the text under the sub-section heading Military Codes and Ciphers: "The cipher is of...
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Atbash (redirect from Atbash cipher)
(Hebrew: אתבש; also transliterated Atbaš) is a monoalphabetic substitution cipher originally used to encrypt the Hebrew alphabet. It can be modified for use...
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letters in a ciphertext. The method is used as an aid to breaking classical ciphers. Frequency analysis is based on the fact that, in any given stretch of...
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Names for the number 0 in English (section Null)
interchangeable, as is "null". Sporting terms are sometimes used as slang terms for zero, as are "nada", "zilch" and "zip". "Zero" and "cipher" are both names...
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