Crossword clues for cryptogram
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cryptogram \Cryp"to*gram\ (kr?p"t?-gr?m), n. A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context games English) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.
WordNet
n. a piece of writing in code or cipher [syn: cryptograph, secret writing]
Wikipedia
A cryptogram is a type of puzzle that consists of a short piece of encrypted text. Generally the cipher used to encrypt the text is simple enough that the cryptogram can be solved by hand. Frequently used are substitution ciphers where each letter is replaced by a different letter or number. To solve the puzzle, one must recover the original lettering. Though once used in more serious applications, they are now mainly printed for entertainment in newspapers and magazines.
Other types of classical ciphers are sometimes used to create cryptograms. An example is the book cipher where a book or article is used to encrypt a message.
A cryptogram is a short, coded text.
Cryptogram may also refer to:
- The Cryptogram, a play by David Mamet
- Cryptograms (album), a musical recording by Deerhunter
- A newsletter published by Bruce Schneier
- A journal published by the American Cryptogram Association
Usage examples of "cryptogram".
For readers who want more detail on these methods, I recommend, in the rear of this book, some other works and membership in the American Cryptogram Association.
This consisted of a single letter, known to both encipherer and decipherer, with which the decipherer could decipher the first cryptogram letter and so get a start on his, work.
With this, he would get the first plaintext letter, then use this as the key to decipher the second cryptogram letter, use that plaintext as the key to decipher the third cryptogram letter, and so on.
Conde returned the cryptogram to the inhabitants, and on Sunday, April 30, 1628, though its fortifications were still unbreached and its defenses still apparently adequate for a long siege, Realmont suddenly and unexpectedly capitulated.
These repetitions betray the movements of the keyword beneath the surface of the cryptogram just as the ducking of a fishing cork tells of a nibble.
This information permits the cryptanalyst to sort the letters of the cryptogram so that all those enciphered with the first keyletter are brought together in one group, all those enciphered with the second keyletter in another group and so forth.
The cryptogram that he and a youthful colleague, Nigel de Grey, had partially read was to become the single most far-reaching and most important solution in history.
The monoalphabetically enciphered letters that are the goal of these techniques also exist in a Vernam one-time system cryptogram because the 32 available cipher alphabets are used over and over again.
There are only three possible solutions for a one-letter cryptogram, but dozens for those of two letters, and zillions for those of 100.
Suppose that the cryptanalyst obtains the plaintext of a given cryptogram, perhaps through theft or the error of a radio operator.
The sudden appearance of a figure shift would abruptly convert a literal cryptogram into one of numbers and punctuation marks.
The cryptogram would have to be as long as all the speeches made on the floor of the Senate and the House of Representatives in three successive sessions of Congress.
For a good while the flaw in the one corrupt cryptogram frustrated their efforts, but as the night wore on Wright worked it out.
Remembering her experience with the cryptogram of the Florentine Dante, Hagar determined to retain the key, and, if possible, to discover the secret.
When Lars rediscovered the cryptogram, he also found a reference to a painting.