substitution cipher
substitution cipher · substitution ciphers
A method of encryption by which units of plaintext are substituted with ciphertext…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.
Forms
plural: substitution ciphers| Singular | substitution cipher |
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regular