cipher
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈsaɪfər/
- Specialized
:
cifrado
- In the 15th century, Leon Battista Alberti, an Italian mathematician, invented the cipher disc, which made substitution codes harder to crack.
- block cipher
- stream cipher
- cipher machine
Because if you don't do integrity checking, then, well, let's say let's say you're using a XOR based stream cipher for your encryption.
- Because if you don't do integrity checking, then, well, let's say let's say you're using a XOR based stream cipher for your encryption.
- It was argued there must exist a book that is the cipher and perfect compendium of all other books, and some librarian must have examined that book.
Examples
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Unless you decode the cipher, this does not prove a theory.
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Well, who taught you the cipher, Mr. Malley?
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Suppose your country has a cipher that you have been using for 10 years.
Blog text (12) -
Tell me the Spectrum Cipher Code.
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You are working on the cipher, aren't you?
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The accounts are encrypted with a 1024-bit cipher.
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Poland cracked the German Enigma cipher machine; the United States broke the main Japanese diplomatic cipher machine.
Academic text (2006) -
There are two classes of product ciphers: stream and block ciphers.
Academic text (1990) -
The spy used a complex cipher to send secret messages without being detected.
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To protect sensitive information, the software implements a strong cipher for data encryption.
Synonyms
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A way of using signs, letters, or numbers to hide a message
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To change information into a code so only people with permission can read it
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A set of words, letters or signs used to hide a message
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8.2
A way of writing that uses codes so only certain people can read it
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8.9
A secret written message that hides the true meaning
Antonyms
How Secure
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Cipher also came to mean a secret way of writing because number signs and special symbols were used to hide information, and the name from Arabic sifr stuck to those signs; so a cipher can be a 'code' that hides a message.