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transposition cipher

method of encryption by which the positions held by units of plaintext (which are commonly characters or groups of characters) are shifted according to a regular system, so that the ciphertext constitutes a permutation of the plaintext
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transposition cipher

Summary

transposition cipher ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (218 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • transposition cipher's subclass of is recorded as classical cipher[2].
  • transposition cipher's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cykb[3].
  • transposition cipher's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Transposition ciphers[4].
  • transposition cipher's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/transposition-cipher[5].
  • transposition cipher's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/route-cipher[6].
  • transposition cipher's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 71247151[7].
  • transposition cipher's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C71247151[8].

Why It Matters

transposition cipher ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (218 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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