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Nihilist cipher

noun

Etymology

The cipher was originally used by Russian Nihilists in the 1880s to organise terrorism against the tsarist regime.

  1. derived from Nihilists in the 1880s to organise terrorism against the tsarist regime

Definitions

  1. A symmetric cipher in which a Polybius square using a mixed alphabet is used to convert…

    A symmetric cipher in which a Polybius square using a mixed alphabet is used to convert both the plain text and a keyword to a series of two-digit numbers, which are then summed in the normal way to get the ciphertext, with the key numbers repeated as required; (by extension) any of several improved algorithms based on this.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Nihilist cipher. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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