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Cryptic Secrets and Codebreaking Arts
A challenging crossword exploring key terms and concepts behind hidden messages and code decryption techniques.
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  • 1. The science of decoding encrypted messages without the key
  • 2. Cipher that rearranges the order of characters
  • 3. To convert information into a coded format
  • 4. Analysis technique counting letter appearances in ciphertext
  • 6. Essential secret piece for encrypting or decrypting
  • 7. Original message before encryption
  • 9. To deliberately make something obscure or unclear
  • 15. A method of transforming text to conceal its meaning
  • 16. Famous WWII machine used for encryption
Down
  • 5. Hiding information within other non-secret text or data
  • 8. Repeated structure revealing clues in a cipher
  • 10. Cipher technique replacing letters with other letters
  • 11. Characteristic of hidden or secret communication
  • 12. A message used to convey information covertly
  • 13. Set of letters used to write coded messages
  • 14. Device or person that interprets coded messages
  • 17. Grid arrangement used in some code systems

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