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polyalphabetic

Adjective

Meaning

polyalphabetic (not comparable)

Describing a substitution cipher in which plaintext letters in different positions are enciphered using different substitution alphabets.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Enigma's security came from using several rotors in series (usually three or four) and the regular stepping movement of the rotors, thus implementing a polyalphabetic substitution cipher. Source: Internet

Modern stream ciphers can also be seen, from a sufficiently abstract perspective, to be a form of polyalphabetic cipher in which all the effort has gone into making the keystream as long and unpredictable as possible. Source: Internet

It produced a polyalphabetic substitution cipher, but unlike Enigma, was not a rotor machine, being built around electrical stepping switches. Source: Internet

In a polyalphabetic cipher, multiple cipher alphabets are used. Source: Internet

Simple ciphers were replaced by polyalphabetic substitution ciphers (such as the Vigenère ) which changed the substitution alphabet for every letter. Source: Internet

The method of filling the tableau, and of choosing which alphabet to use next, defines the particular polyalphabetic cipher. Source: Internet

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