Book cipher
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title:
Book cipher
text:
A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key. A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in that book. For example, if the chosen key is H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds, the plaintext "all plans failed, coming back tomorrow" could be encoded as "335 2
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Encryption and decryption method
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_cipher
date created:
2004-01-31T16:58:34Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T02:05:42Z
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