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| | Encryption - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | Historically, cryptography was split into a dichotomy of codes and ciphers, and coding had its own terminology, analogous to that for ciphers: "encoding, codetext, decoding" and so on. |
 | | However, codes have a variety of drawbacks, including susceptibilty to cryptanalysis and the difficulty of managing a cumbersome codebook. |
 | | Because of this, codes have fallen into disuse in modern cryptography, and ciphers are the dominant paradigm. |
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