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• decrypt — /diˈkrɪpt/ (say dee kript) verb (t) 1. Computers to decode (data which has been encrypted). 2. Military to convert a cryptogram into plain text by a reversal of the encryption process. This does not include solution by cryptanalysis. –decryption …  

• Ciphertext — The Zimmermann Telegram (as it was sent from Washington to Mexico) encrypted as ciphertext. This article is about encrypted information. For an overview of cryptographic technology in general, see Cryptography. In cryptography, ciphertext (or… …   Wikipedia

• Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem — The Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem was one of the earliest public key cryptosystems invented by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman in 1978.[1] Although its ideas are elegant, and far simpler than RSA, it has been broken.[2] Contents 1… …   Wikipedia

• Autokey cipher — An autokey cipher (also known as the autoclave cipher) is a cipher which incorporates the message (the plaintext) into the key. There are two forms of autokey cipher: key autokey and text autokey ciphers. A key autokey cipher uses previous… …   Wikipedia

• Caesar cipher — The action of a Caesar cipher is to replace each plaintext letter with one fixed number of places down the alphabet. This example is with a shift of three, so that a B in the p …   Wikipedia

• Cryptography — Secret code redirects here. For the Aya Kamiki album, see Secret Code. Symmetric key cryptography, where the same key is used both for encryption and decryption …   Wikipedia

• Merkle-Hellman — (MH) was one of the earliest public key cryptosystems and was invented by Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman in 1978. [Ralph Merkle and Martin Hellman, Hiding Information and Signatures in Trapdoor Knapsacks, IEEE Trans. Information Theory , 24(5),… …   Wikipedia

• One-time pad — Excerpt from a one time pad In cryptography, the one time pad (OTP) is a type of encryption, which has been proven to be impossible to crack if used correctly. Each bit or character from the plaintext is encrypted by a modular addition with a bit …   Wikipedia

• Substitution cipher — In cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of encryption by which units of plaintext are replaced with ciphertext according to a regular system; the units may be single letters (the most common), pairs of letters, triplets of letters,… …   Wikipedia

• Hill cipher — Hill s cipher machine, from figure 4 of the patent In classical cryptography, the Hill cipher is a polygraphic substitution cipher based on linear algebra. Invented by Lester S. Hill in 1929, it was the first polygraphic cipher in which it was… …   Wikipedia

• 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