English Explanatory Dictionary

rail fence cipher

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A transposition cipher in which the plain text is written in a zigzag fashion diagonally up and down on successive "rails" of an imaginary fence, and then the characters are read off in rows to obtain the ciphertext.

Word forms

rail fence cipher rail fence ciphers
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