Playfair cipher

noun

Etymology

Named after Lord Playfair, who promoted it. (It was invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone.)

Definitions

  1. A manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters (digraphs).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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