autokey

Adjective

Meaning

autokey (not comparable)

(cryptography) Being a cipher that incorporates the plaintext into the key.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

autoclave

Examples

During the Crimean War of the 1850s, Babbage broke Vigenère's autokey cipher as well as the much weaker cipher that is called Vigenère cipher today. citation His discovery was kept a military secret, and was not published. Source: Internet

Such schemes are known as self-synchronizing stream ciphers, asynchronous stream ciphers or ciphertext autokey (CTAK). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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