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CypherText

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(language)CypherText - An interactive language for text formatting and typesetting.

["CypherText: An Extensible Composing and Typesetting Language", C.G. Moore et al, Proc FJCC 37, AFIPS (Fall 1970)].


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In theory, only the person or machine doing the scrambling and the recipient of the cyphertext know how to decrypt or unscramble the data since it will have been encrypted using an agreed-upon set of keys.
A key is a mathematical value that determines how a plain text message is encrypted to produce a cyphertext, and its possession is required to decrypt the cyphertext and recover the original message.
In theory, only the person or machine doing the scrambling and the recipient of the cyphertext know how to decrypt or unscramble the data since it will have been encrypted using an agreed-upon set of keys.
 
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