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 Transposition cipher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In classical cryptography, a transposition cipher changes one character from the plaintext to another (to decrypt the reverse is done).
Until the discovery of the VIC cipher, double transposition was generally regarded as the most complicated cipher that an agent could operate reliably under difficult field conditions.
Examples of ciphers that combine fractionation and transposition include the bifid cipher, the trifid cipher, the ADFGVX cipher and the VIC cipher.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transposition_cipher   (1469 words)

  
 Permutation cipher -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In classical (Act of writing in code or cipher) cryptography, a permutation cipher is a (Click link for more info and facts about transposition cipher) transposition cipher in which the (A lever that actuates a mechanism when depressed) key is a (Act of changing the lineal order of objects in a group) permutation.
This means that the cipher can in many cases be identified as a transposition by the close similarity of its letter statistics with the letter frequencies of the underlying language.
Because the cipher operates on blocks of size e, the plaintext and the ciphertext have to have a length which is some multiple of e.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pe/Permutation_cipher.htm   (399 words)

  
 CITI: Projects : Secure Videoconferencing : Overview
We also needed to be able to add ciphers and key exchange algorithms, so we implemented the changes to VIC using the GSS API as an interface between VIC and the security components we wish to test.
Users are presented with a modified VIC main menu that allows either the sender or receiver to initiate security any time during the VIC session.
Note that for the transmitter, their chosen cipher is used to encrypt both the control and data channels while for the receiver, their choice of cipher encrypts the return control channel.
www.citi.umich.edu /projects/secure_video/SecureVideo.html   (661 words)

  
 Caesar cipher -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In (Act of writing in code or cipher) cryptography, a Caesar cipher, also known as a Caesar shift cipher or shift cipher, is one of the simplest and most widely-known (The activity of converting from plain text into code) encryption techniques.
Even as late as 1915, the Caesar cipher was in use: the Russian army employed it as a replacement for more complicated ciphers which had proved to be too difficult for their troops to master; German and Austrian cryptanalysts had little difficulty in decrypting their messages.
In the first case, the cipher can be broken using the same techniques as for a general simple substitution cipher, such as (Click link for more info and facts about frequency analysis) frequency analysis or pattern words.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/caesar_cipher.htm   (1418 words)

  
 Transposition cipher -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In classical (Act of writing in code or cipher) cryptography, a transposition cipher changes one character from the (Click link for more info and facts about plaintext) plaintext to another (to decrypt the reverse is done).
An interesting variation of the route cipher was the Union Route Cipher, used by Union forces during the (Civil war in the United States between the North and the South; 1861-1865) American Civil War.
Consequently such ciphers may be vulnerable to optimum seeking algorithms such as (Click link for more info and facts about genetic algorithm) genetic algorithms.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/transposition_cipher.htm   (1428 words)

  
 Station Information - Transposition cipher
In classical cryptology, a transposition cipher encodes a message by reordering the plaintext in some definite way.
This cipher is often complicated by permuting the rows and columns.
Double transposition was generally regarded as the most complicated cipher that an agent could operate reliably under difficult field conditions.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/transposition_cipher.html   (381 words)

  
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Granted, Vic doesn't seem like the most obvious candidate to work someone through a post-traumatic episode--and it would be nice to see Ezri in action as counselor--but the story has already told us that in Nog's mind he's past the point of counseling.
Vic is the break from reality; and if there's one thing that Nog perhaps has had too much of, it's reality.
The way Vic does this is with a sympathetic but pragmatic approach that is appropriate for the situation and in tune with Vic's direct-approach personality.
www.st-hypertext.com /plaintext/ds9-t7/papermoon.txt   (1348 words)

  
 The VIC Cipher
The VIC cipher is an intricate cipher issued by the Soviet Union to at least one of its spies.
It was the cipher in which a message was written which was found on a piece of microfilm inside a hollowed-out nickel by a newspaper boy in 1953.
The workings of this cipher were explained by Hayhaynen to FBI agents shortly after his defection to the United States in 1957.
www.quadibloc.com /crypto/pp1324.htm   (1353 words)

  
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He confirmed what the Soviet spy Reino Hayhanen [code name Victor] had told us in 1957, that two cipher systems were taught to his agents to implement anti U.S. Operations (Special Ops) - the VIC cipher and the One-Time pad.
The CT is removed by column per key order without regard to the D areas.
The complication in substitution was the straddling device on the checkerboard.
math.ucsd.edu /~crypto/Projects/AnthonyZanontian/vic.htm   (814 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: VIC cipher
In cryptography, a block cipher is a symmetric key cipher which operates on fixed-length groups of bits, termed blocks, with an unvarying transformation.
Decimal, or denary, notation is the most common way of writing the base 10 numeral system, which uses various symbols for ten distinct quantities (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, called digits) together with the decimal point and the sign symbols + (plus) and − (minus) to...
In cryptography, a straddling checkerboard is a device for converting an alphabetic plaintext into digits whilst simultaneously achieving fractionation (a simple form of information diffusion) and homophony (a simple method for suppressing peaks of the frequency distribution).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/VIC-cipher   (619 words)

  
 THE ROMANCE READER reviews: Body Electric by Susan Squires
McIntire and his henchmen know that Vic is up to something, and she must race against time to protect her work so the ambitious CEO won’t claim Jodie for his own greedy, immoral purposes.
And the lonely, cynical Vic, who usually finds release only in anonymous sexual encounters, realizes that she is falling in love with someone who is both more and less than human.
Also, I couldn’t predict how Vic and Jodie were going to resolve their dilemma (let’s face it, I didn’t understand a lot of what Vic was talking about with neural nets and algorhythms, but I could get the general idea).
www.theromancereader.com /squires-body.html   (829 words)

  
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Evans came into prominence in 1928 and in 1934 was a leading man with the Old Vic.
Known for her resonant voice, she worked with the Old Vic (1925-26) and had a distinguished career on the stage and in films.
He was an actor of enormous versatility and range on stage and in film.
www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=VIC+cipher&rc=10&fh=9&fr=11   (492 words)

  
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Ciphers may be broken, traffic may be analyzed, and passwords may be cracked.
Based on the "Lucifer" cipher developed by Horst Feistel at IBM, DES is a secret key cryptosystem that cycles 64-bit blocks of data through multiple permutations with a 56-bit key controlling the routing.
DES is in use for interbank transfers, as a cipher inside of several RSA-based systems, and is available for PCs.
www.etext.org /Politics/Extropy.Institute/may.041393   (3840 words)

  
 The Shield | PopMatters Television Review
Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and a coterie of unis head toward and past the camera, and suddenly the lively sidewalk scene turns ominous.
Vic is the man in every way: mean, impulsive, voluble, in love with his authority but resentful too, resisting his own responsibility, except when it comes to kids, especially little helpless ones.
Vic looks almost bunnylike when she dangles her carrot, offering him the leadership of her own career-making innovation, a task force to target gangs, funded by that forfeiture program she has in mind.
www.popmatters.com /tv/reviews/s/shield-2005.shtml   (1577 words)

  
 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Old Vic theater opened in 1818 as the Coburg, and was renamed the Royal Victoria in 1833, soon familiarized to the Old Vic.
There are many devices by which a message can be concealed from the casual reader, e.g., invisible writing, but the term cryptography strictly applies to translating messages into cipher or code.
He appeared with the Old Vic in Henry V and Othello and on Broadway in Camelot (1960...
www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=VIC+cipher   (461 words)

  
 radicals
In general, a single cipher algorithm is used during all data transmission but, as there are many algorithms and they cause different loads in end hosts, their inclusion in the adaptation mechanism makes sense and gives an additional degree of freedom to the programmer and user.
In general, the ciphering algorithms do not increase the amount of data to be sent, except possibly by a small quantity, so the bandwidth used is not affected by the ciphering scheme.
The ciphering and deciphering components are specific to each kind of cipher: IDEA, DES, etc. For instance, an IDEA deciphering component gets a frame, ciphers it and passes it to the RTP component (fig.
www.di.fc.ul.pt /~mpc/radicals.html   (2934 words)

  
 [Qsr Nrwn]: Classical Cryptography Course by Lanaki, Multiliteral substitution II
Ciphers in which one plain text letter is represented by cipher characters of two or more elements are classed as multiliteral.
One of the first steps to solving a multiliteral cipher with a cipher matrix, is to anagram the letters comprising the row and column indicators in an attempt to disclose the key words used.
Mixed numerical cipher alphabets are those that have been keyed by a key word turned into numerical cipher equivalents or have a random combination of two or more digits for each letter of plain text.
www.geocities.com /qsr_nrwn/lanaki/lesson03.htm   (5770 words)

  
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These ciphers were able to decrypt the majority of messages, however the Confederacy had been known to sometimes publish Union ciphers in their newspapers pleading with readers for assistance in breaking the encrypted code.
1 Eve the Eavesdropper Eve is eavesdropping on Peggy and Vic’s conversation.
To prove to Vic that she knows the solution, Vic will present a scrambled cube and ask her to either solve the cube or to move the cube back to its original scrambled position.
home.stny.rr.com /turnbull/ZeroKnowledge.doc   (2759 words)

  
 What The Wall St. Buffoons Are Saying
If Laurel had read closely she would have seen Mark was not attempting to legally define Vic as anything, rather he was ripping him for his inconsistent babblings.
Vic: Hitting a 40-day low point in the markets has led to an average rise of 1.5% the next day, over the past six years.
Vic: The stocks I bought were an expression of my own refusal to give up, an expression of a spirit of hope and belief in the growth and resilience and goodness of business.
www.turtletrader.com /buffoons.html   (1759 words)

  
 vic
Vic is the capital of the comarca of Osona, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
VIC (all caps) denotes the MOS Video Interface Chip used in the Commodore VIC-20 home computer.
"VIC" sometimes also colloquially refers to the VIC-20 computer itself, or to the VIC chip's successor, VIC-II, used in the Commodore 64 and 128.
www.fact-library.com /vic.html   (172 words)

  
 Lanaki Lesson 4
The average cipher clerk would have difficulty in decrypting a cipher group such as TOOET, each letter having 3 or more equivalents, from which plain text fragments (n)inth, ft thi(s), it thi, etc. can be formed on decipherment.
If the cipher text is of 5-figure code type, then such repetitions as appear should generally be in whole groups of five digits, and they should be visible in the text just as the message stands, unless the code message has been superenciphered.
If the cryptogram is a cipher, then repetitions should extend beyond the 5-digit groupings; if they conform to any definite at all they should for the most part contain even numbers of digits since each letter is probably represented by a pair (dinome) of digits.
www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/coding/379/lesson4.htm   (1459 words)

  
 Willamette Week Online | Music | Nightlife Misadventures | Microphone Fiends: MC Cipher at Backspace
Not all participated with rhymes--standing by and lending an ear is participation enough--and not all of these rhymers are slick wordsmiths.
As for the Wednesday-night ciphers, there's no need to worry about the temperature inside the Backspace: Things are heating up just fine.
Vic's Tavern, 10901 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Milwaukie, 653-9156.
www.wweek.com /story.php?story=4766   (677 words)

  
 Lanaki Lesson 6
The concept of zero or sifr or cipher was so confusing and ambiguous to common Europeans that in arguments people would say "talk clearly and not so far fetched as a cipher".
Cipher text letters were indicated by the number of letters written together; breaks in count by spaces in handwriting; upstrokes, downstrokes, thumbnail prints, all subtly used to bootleg secrets in and out of prisons.
The cipher text is removed by column per key order without regard to the D areas.
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Three of my favorite cipher systems are: 1) Nihilist, 2) VIC - Disruption (aka straddling bipartite monoalphabetic substitution super-enciphered by modified double transposition) and 3) the One-Time Pad.
Ciphertext letters were indicated by the number of letters written together; breaks in count by spaces in handwriting; upstrokes, downstrokes, thumbnail prints, all subtly used to bootleg secrets in and out of prisons.
The PT was written in by rows (or diagonals); a KW switched the rows; a same or different KW switched the columns, and the resulting CT was removed by columns or by one of 40 or more routes out of the square.
www.und.nodak.edu /org/crypto/crypto/lanaki.crypt.class/docs/russian/russ1.kript   (544 words)

  
 Cyphernomicon 19.4: Appendix -- Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
cipher -- a secret form of writing, using substitution or transposition of characters or symbols.
computationally secure -- where a cipher cannot be broken with available computer resources, but in theory can be broken with enough computer resources.
unconditionally secure -- where no amount of intercepted ciphertext is enough to allow the cipher to be broken, as with the use of a one-time pad cipher.
andercheran.aiind.upv.es /toni/cripto/cyphernomicon/chapter19/19.4.html   (4069 words)

  
 Dirk's English Weblog
The cipher used a date, a random number, and a 20 letter keyphrase to encrypt the message.
Despite being a pencil-and-paper cipher, it has proven to be a highly secure cipher, and the strongest ever, known to be issued for use in the field.
Tom is also a dedicated Enigma cipher machine collector, and has documented a large number of those wonderful machines.
www.dirk-defcom-en.blogspot.com   (5218 words)

  
 sci.crypt: Re: Which paper and pencil cipher to use ?
A cipher which requires additional apparatus, which however can be
A cipher requiring apparatus which cannot be easily disposed of,
A cipher requiring obviously suspicious apparatus, but which is
www.derkeiler.com /Newsgroups/sci.crypt/2003-02/0772.html   (915 words)

  
 Lanaki Lesson 3
On the other hand, if the word separator is a single character, this character may be identified by its positional appearance spaced 'wordlength-wise' in the cipher text and by the fact that it never contacts itself.
Numerical cipher values lend themselves to treatment by various mathematical processes to further complicate the cipher system in which they are used.
The Hill Cipher is another good example of the use of mathematical transformation processes on ciphers and is presented in David Kahn's book.
www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/coding/379/lesson3.htm   (6167 words)

  
 Superman Homepage
Lois explains that she didn't want to be teamed with Sage, whom she considers a cipher.
Vic Sage is already at the press conference, but soon leaves to do some investigating on his own.
After activating the gas that turns him into The Question, Sage walks the streets of Metropolis and uses his ability to "hear" the city to get a feel of what Metropolis is like.
www.supermanhomepage.com /comics/2005-post-crisis-reviews/c-review-2005.php?topic=question2   (2705 words)

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