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vb. (present participle of encipher English)
Usage examples of "enciphering".
Electric impulses raced through the maze of wires, reversing the intricate enciphering process.
So Marshall shunned the scrambler telephone and relied on the slightly slower but much more secure method of enciphering a written message.
But even if the entire document had been delivered on time, the 25 minutes that remained until the attack would not have been sufficient time for all the steps needed to prevent surprise: reading the document, guessing that a military attack was intended, notifying the War and Navy departments, composing, enciphering, transmitting, and deciphering an appropriate warning, and alerting the outpost forces.
By the end of the century, cryptology had become important enough for most states to keep full-time cipher secretaries occupied in making up new keys, enciphering and deciphering messages, and solving intercepted dispatches.
So the German Foreign Office disguised the codegroups by enciphering them.
This would have the effect of enciphering one letter into another in a monoalphabetic substitution.
The advantage was not the mechanical enciphering and printing of the message.
A Dutch engineer, Hugo Alexander Koch, 49, viewed the system most comprehensively, pointing out in his patent that steel wires on pulleys, levers, rays of light, or air, water, or oil flowing through tubes could transmit the enciphering impulse as well as electricity.
He was halfway through enciphering it when there was a commotion in the yard outside as a fine coach rolled in.
He splashed the brilliant ray of his huge five-celled flashlight over the enciphering square.
The rub remains: with an infinity of available enciphering keys, a meaningful string of letters can be translated into any available gibberish.
This unsettling two-way mapping of any sense onto any nonsense works because the keythe enciphering ruleitself contains information.
This done, she was given her own key, as a badge of her office, and found a job in one of the stalls enciphering and deciphering books.