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rail fence ciphers

rail fence ciphers is the plural of rail fence cipher.

Meaning of rail fence cipher

Noun

rail fence cipher (plural rail fence ciphers)

  1. A transposition cipher in which the plain text is written in a zigzag fashion diagonally up and down on successive "rails" of an imaginary fence, and then the characters are read off in rows to obtain the ciphertext.

Questions about rail fence ciphers

What is rail fence ciphers the plural of?
Rail fence ciphers is the plural of rail fence cipher.

Words near rail fence ciphers in the dictionary

  1. rail drink
  2. rail drinks
  3. rail fare
  4. rail fares
  5. rail fence cipher
  6. rail fence ciphers
  7. rail flies
  8. rail fly
  9. rail freight
  10. rail gauge
  11. rail gauges

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