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substitution cipher

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substitution cipher [‚səb·stə′tü·shən ‚sī·fər]
(communications)
A cipher in which the characters of the original message are replaced by other characters according to a key.


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The author begins a description of various symmetric-key cryptographic algorithms that includes basic substitution ciphers, cryptanalysis and other encryption standards.
There is also a partial converse result: if two letter-sequences are related by a substitution cipher and have the same reduced alphabet-length, then either every letter that appears in the period does so at most once, or the two letter-sequences are similar.
This third programme, Le Chiffre Indechiffrable, traces the search for a new system of encryption, following the cracking of the mono-alphabetic substitution cipher.
 
 
 
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