Cipher
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In cryptography, a cipher is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment.
Edward Larsson's rune cipher resembling that found on the Kensington Runestone. Also includes runically unrelated blackletter writing style and pigpen cipher.
Ciphertext
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In cryptography, ciphertext or cyphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher. Ciphertext is also known as encrypted or encoded information because i
Cipher
…be the code for "Proceed to the following coordinates.". When using a cipher the original information is known as plaintext, and the encrypted form as ciphertext. The ciphertext message contains all the information of the plaintext message, but is not in a format readable by a human or computer without the proper…
The Zimmermann Telegram (as it was sent from Washington to Mexico in 1917) encrypted as ciphertext.
KGB ciphertext found in a hollow nickel in Brooklyn in 1953
The Zimmermann Telegram decrypted into plaintext (and translated into English).