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A message written in a secret code
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cipher
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Cipher ( Alisa Tager ) is a fictional mutant character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . She is a young African-American female who first appeared in Young X-Men #8 (Nov. 2008) and was created by Marc Guggenheim ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "arithmetical symbol for zero," from Old French cifre "nought, zero," Medieval Latin cifra , with Spanish and Italian cifra , ultimately from Arabic sifr "zero," literally "empty, nothing," from safara "to be empty;" loan-translation of Sanskrit ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cipher \Ci"pher\, n. [OF. cifre zero, F. Chiffre figure (cf. Sp.cifra, LL. cifra), fr. Ar. [,c]ifrun, [,c]afrun, empty, cipher, zero, fr. [,c]afira to be empty. Cf. Zero .] (Arith.) A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when ...
Usage examples of cipher.
It usually had a separate cipher alphabet with homophones and a codelike list of names, words, and syllables.
The polyalphabetic class of ciphers, to which purple belonged, is based ultimately upon an alphabet table, usually 26 letters by 26.
Each row thus offers a different set of cipher substitutes to the letters of the plaintext alphabet at the top.
To decipher, the clerk begins with the keyletter, runs in along the ciphertext alphabet until he strikes the cipher letter, then follows the column of letters upward until he emerges at the plaintext letter at the top.
The machine, to serve in the field, shifted its cipher alphabet irregularly by means of gears.
It permitted him to reconstruct a primary cipher alphabet without having to guess at a single plaintext letter.
Friedman chose to do so in anagram cipher, the solution to which he sealed in a time-stamped envelope, inviting readers to try and unravel it.
Another revelation buried in the biliteral cipher was of the levitation machine, which Fabyan attempted to build following the simple step-by-step directions.
A stone-waller, a no-sayer, a cipher whose bumbledom was itself an act of cruelty.
A string of ciphered spellcraft unreeled and spread with the winnowing wind.
A rudimentary ability in ciphering, some French, and some unremarkable talent in drawing.
My goal has been twofold: to narrate the development of the various methods of making and breaking codes and ciphers, and to tell how these methods have affected men.
It printed new editions of codes and ciphers and distributed them, and contracted with manufacturers for cipher machines.
But the technique of its solution lies at the heart of the cryptanalysis of nearly all more sophisticated substitution ciphers.
In a three-day marathon of cryptanalysis, Manly, aided by Miss Rickert, perceived the pattern of this 12-step official transposition cipher, with its multiple horizontal shiftings of three- and four-letter plaintext groups ripped apart by a final vertical transcription.