encipher
/ɪnˈsʌɪfə
/ /ɛnˈsʌɪfə/verb [with object]
Convert (a message or piece of text) into a coded form: (as adjective enciphered) an enciphered text...
- In this type of cryptography the encryption function (which enciphers a message) can be computed by anybody, using the public key.
- Here the message is enciphered word by word (or character by character), where the rule for the encryption of each word is determined by its position in the message.
- However, just as one side invented an ingenious new way to encipher its messages, so would its enemies discover a clever way of cracking that code.
Derivatives
encipherment
/ /ɛnˈsʌɪfəm(ə)nt / noun ...- If computer processors become fast enough to factorize the 128 digit numbers that are used for encipherment, we can start to use 512 digit numbers.
- In 1941 the Germans introduced the Lorenz double encipherment machine which was used to send messages from the German high command to generals in the field.
- For a stream cipher we can think of the encipherment process as a sequence of the following two operations: change and leave unchanged.