monoalphabetic substitution cipher

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• 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

• monoalphabetic substitution — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ at mono + noun Etymology: mon + alphabetic : substitution in cryptography that uses a single substitution alphabet so that each plaintext letter always has the same cipher equivalent compare polyalphabetic * * * /mon oh al feuh bet ik,… …   Useful english dictionary

• monoalphabetic substitution — /mon oh al feuh bet ik, mon oh /, Cryptography. a system of substitution that uses only one cipher alphabet in a cryptogram so that each plaintext letter is always represented by the same cipher. Cf. polyalphabetic substitution. [1935 40; MONO +… …   Universalium

• cipher — cipherable, adj. cipherer, n. /suy feuhr/, n. 1. zero. 2. any of the Arabic numerals or figures. 3. Arabic numerical notation collectively. 4. something of no value or importance. 5. a person of no influence; nonentity. 6. a secret method of… …   Universalium

• Cipher disk — The Union Cipher Disk from the American Civil War was 3.75 inches (95 mm) in diameter and made of light yellow heavy card stock. It consisted of two concentric disks of unequal size revolving on a central pivot. The disks were divided along their …   Wikipedia

• monoalphabetic — adjective Of a substitution cipher, using the same fixed mappings from plaintext to cipher letters across the entire text …   Wiktionary

• Affine cipher — Demonstration of an affine cipher using 17x + 5. First the letters are converted into numbers between 0 and 25, then 17x+5 is taken for each, then the results are reduced mod 26, then these are translated back into letters. The Affine cipher is a …   Wikipedia

• Polygraphic substitution — A polygraphic substitution is a cipher in which a uniform substitution is performed on blocks of letters. When the length of the block is specifically known, more precise terms are used: for instance, a cipher in which pairs of letters are… …   Wikipedia

• Classical cipher — A cipher is a means of concealing a message, where letters of the message are substituted or transposed for other letters, letter pairs, and sometimes for many letters. In cryptography, a classical cipher is a type of cipher that was used… …   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

• Playfair cipher — The Playfair cipher or Playfair square is a manual symmetric encryption technique and was the first literal digraph substitution cipher. The scheme was invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone, but bears the name of Lord Playfair who promoted the… …   Wikipedia