cipher clerk

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• cipher clerk — noun : a person who routinely encrypts and decrypts messages called also code clerk …   Useful english dictionary

• cipher — [[t]sa͟ɪfə(r)[/t]] ciphers also cypher 1) N COUNT A cipher is a secret system of writing that you use to send messages. They cracked the cipher. ...a cipher clerk. Syn: code 2) N COUNT If you describe someone as a cipher, you mean that they have… …   English dictionary

• clerk — I n. 1) a booking clerk (BE; AE has ticket agent) 2) a desk (AE), reception (BE), room (AE) clerk (in a hotel) 3) a bank (BE); city (AE), town; cipher, code; court; filing; mail, postal clerk; salesclerk (AE; BE has shop assistant); shipping;… …   Combinatory dictionary

• Transposition cipher — In cryptography, a transposition cipher is a method of encryption by which the positions held by units of plaintext (which are commonly characters or groups of characters) are shifted according to a regular system, so that the ciphertext… …   Wikipedia

• code clerk — noun : cipher clerk * * * code clerk, a clerk who codes and decodes messages: »I had been a code clerk in the American Embassy for two years (James Thurber) …   Useful english dictionary

• Book cipher — A book cipher is a cipher in which the key is some aspect of a book or other piece of text; books being common and widely available in modern times, users of book ciphers take the position that the details of the key is sufficiently well hidden… …   Wikipedia

• Igor Gouzenko — activities in the West.Gouzenko s defection exposed Joseph Stalin s efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the then unknown technique of planting sleeper agents. The Gouzenko Affair is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War. [… …   Wikipedia

• Siemens and Halske T52 — The Siemens and Halske T52, also known as the Geheimfernschreiber ( secret teleprinter ), or Schlüsselfernschreibmaschine (SFM), was a World War II German teleprinter cipher machine. The machine and its traffic were codenamed Sturgeon by British… …   Wikipedia

• Reservehandverfahren — de. Reservehandverfahren (RHV) ( en. Reserve Hand Procedure) was a German Naval World War II hand cipher system used as a backup method when no working Enigma machine was available. [ [http://www.codesandciphers.org.uk/documents/egenproc/page03.ht… …   Wikipedia

• Tyler Kent — Tyler Gatewood Kent (March 24, 1911 November 20, 1988) was an American diplomat and alleged spy who, while working as a cipher clerk at the U.S. Embassy in London, stole thousands of secret documents for a pro German organization during World War …   Wikipedia

• Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (diplomat) — Vladimir Mikhaylovich Petrov (15 February, 1907 14 June, 1991) was a member of the Soviet Union s clandestine services who became famous in 1954 for his defection to Australia.Early lifeHe was born Afanasy Shorokhov, into a peasant family in the… …   Wikipedia