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Cipher Systems and Secret Scripts
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  • 1. Set of letters used in writing systems, sometimes altered for encryption
  • 2. Original readable message before encryption
  • 3. Prefix relating to hidden or secret writing
  • 4. A cipher that uses a keyword to shift letters through multiple alphabets
  • 5. A method of transforming text to hide its meaning
  • 6. A substitution cipher using a single alphabet
  • 12. Type of cipher replacing letters systematically
  • 14. Messengers of encrypted data in communication systems
  • 17. Ancient manuscript that often contained secret codes
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  • 7. A square grid cipher named after an ancient Greek historian
  • 8. Famous WWII machine used for encrypting German messages
  • 9. A word used to control encryption in many classical ciphers
  • 10. To shift letters by a fixed number, as in a Caesar cipher
  • 11. Cipher involving rearranging the letters of plaintext
  • 13. To convert encrypted text back into readable form
  • 15. Process turning data into fixed-size code, often irreversible
  • 16. Code language used by Native American soldiers in WWII
  • 18. Short for the practice of hiding messages within other files or images
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