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rail fence cipher

noun

Definitions

  1. A transposition cipher in which the plain text is written in a zigzag fashion diagonally…

    A transposition cipher in which the plain text is written in a zigzag fashion diagonally up and down on successive "rails" of an imaginary fence, and then the characters are read off in rows to obtain the ciphertext.

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Vish — recursive loop

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

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