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Encryption (definition) |
the process of converting ordinary information (plaintext) into unintelligible gibberish (ciphertext) |
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cipher (definition) |
an algoriths which creates the encryption and reversing decryption |
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Ceasar Cipher |
a cipher with any offset from 1-25 (letters of the alphabet |
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Poly-alphabetic Cipher |
a keyword is picked and repeated the length of the plain text |
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Cryptography (definition) |
the study of encryption and ecryption |
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cryptanlysis |
the study of breaking code (decryption without having the key) |
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crytology |
the study of cryptography and cryptanalysis |
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decryption |
the method of restoring ciphertext to plaintext |
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frequency analysis |
method of decryption that uses the frequency of letters in the alphabet to determine shift |
