Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptographic Lexicon: Ciphered Codes Challenge
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Encrypted scripts carved by Germanic tribes
- 2. Cipher using multiple alphabets for encryption rounds
- 5. Simple substitution cipher rotating letters by thirteen
- 6. Classical cipher replacing letters systematically
- 7. One-way function transforming input into fixed-size string
- 8. Cipher employing a repeating key to shift alphabets
- 11. Relating to letters, crucial in substitution methods
- 14. Secret string controlling letter substitution or transposition
- 16. Puzzlingly complex or code-like, named after WWII machine
- 18. Encoding scheme representing binary via 64 ASCII characters
Down
- 3. Complex cipher applying permutation twice in sequence
- 4. Concealing messages within innocuous media formats
- 9. Art and science of breaking encrypted messages
- 10. Technique scrambling letter order without substitution
- 12. Ancient Hebrew cipher reversing alphabet order
- 13. Historical shift cipher by Roman dictator’s name
- 15. Unbreakable cipher when used with equal-length random keys
- 17. Reference manual for encoding and decoding messages
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