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substitution ciphers

substitution ciphers is the plural of substitution cipher.

Meaning of substitution cipher

Noun

substitution cipher (plural substitution ciphers)

  1. A method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext according to a regular system; the "units" may be single letters (the most common), pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth. The receiver deciphers the text by performing an inverse substitution.

Questions about substitution ciphers

What is substitution ciphers the plural of?
Substitution ciphers is the plural of substitution cipher.

Words near substitution ciphers in the dictionary

  1. substitutible
  2. substituting
  3. substitutingly
  4. substitution
  5. substitution cipher
  6. substitution ciphers
  7. substitution code
  8. substitution codes
  9. substitution instance
  10. substitution of attorney
  11. substitution reaction

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