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  2. Cipher disk - Wikipedia

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    The entire message is then encoded according to this key. In addition to simple substitution ciphers, the cipher disk opened the way for convenient polyalphabetic ciphers. An easy way to do this is for the sender and the recipient to agree that a certain number of characters into the message, the scales would be shifted one character to the ...

  3. Classical cipher - Wikipedia

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    Some classical ciphers (e.g., the Caesar cipher) have a small key space. These ciphers can be broken with a brute force attack , that is by simply trying out all keys. Substitution ciphers can have a large key space, but are often susceptible to a frequency analysis , because for example frequent letters in the plaintext language correspond to ...

  4. Secret decoder ring - Wikipedia

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    A secret decoder ring (or secret decoder) is a device that allows one to decode a simple substitution cipher—or to encrypt a message by working in the opposite direction. [ 1 ] As inexpensive toys, secret decoders have often been used as promotional items by retailers, as well as radio and television programs, from the 1930s through to the ...

  5. Non-commutative cryptography - Wikipedia

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    This a key exchange protocol using a non-abelian group G. It is significant because it does not require two commuting subgroups A and B of G as in the case of the protocol due to Ko, Lee, et al. Elements a 1 , a 2 , . . . , a k , b 1 , b 2 , . . . , b m from G are selected and published.

  6. Enigma rotor details - Wikipedia

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    The ring settings, or Ringstellung, are used to change the position of the alphabet ring relative to the internal wiring. Notch and alphabet ring are fixed together. Changing the ring setting will therefore change the positions of the wiring, relative to the turnover-point and start position. The ring setting will rotate the wiring.

  7. Cryptographic key types - Wikipedia

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    Key wrapping keys are also known as key encrypting keys. Symmetric and asymmetric random number generation keys These are keys used to generate random numbers. Symmetric master key A symmetric master key is used to derive other symmetric keys (e.g., data encryption keys, key wrapping keys, or authentication keys) using symmetric cryptographic ...

  8. Xor–encrypt–xor - Wikipedia

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    XEX technique: Key1 and Key2 extend the original (short) Key. The xor–encrypt–xor (XEX) is a (tweakable) mode of operation of a block cipher.In tweaked-codebook mode with ciphertext stealing (), it is one of the more popular modes of operation for whole-disk encryption.

  9. Cryptanalysis of the Enigma - Wikipedia

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    The message key was transmitted in an indicator [25] as part of the message preamble. The word key was also used at Bletchley Park to describe the network that used the same Enigma setting sheets. Initially these were recorded using coloured pencils and were given the names red, light blue etc., and later the names of birds such as kestrel. [26]