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Cryptic Ciphers of Antiquity and Mystery
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Descriptive term for complex WWII-era rotor cipher device
- 2. Rearrangement cipher technique causing letter order disruption
- 3. Common Caesar cipher action shifting letter positions cyclically
- 5. Statistical attack method on substitution ciphers depends on this
- 7. Bigrams cipher created by British army officer for tactile encryption
- 9. Polyalphabetic cipher named after a French diplomat's alias
- 13. Simple ancient Hebrew cipher reversing alphabets
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- 4. Prefix indicating multiple substitution alphabets in cryptography
- 6. Julius' classic cipher shift, albeit often oversimplified
- 8. Type of group underlying modern algebraic cipher constructions
- 10. Name evoking route used in a famous rail fence cipher
- 11. Mask or stencil enabling selective letter extraction in encryption
- 12. Ancient Spartan tool for transposition messages on wooden rods
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