cryptogram
Noun
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Noun
cryptogram (plural cryptograms)
- Encrypted text.
- 1981, Norma Gleason, Cryptograms and Spygrams, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486240367), page 7:
- It's a big help in solving cryptograms if you know how a cryptogram is constructed. The constructor normally uses two alphabets, one for plaintext, one for the substitute cipher letters.
- 2002, Fred Piper, Sean Murphy, Cryptography: A Very Short Introduction, OUP Oxford (ISBN 9780191577758), page 35:
- To anyone who does not know the key, the five characters of the cryptogram are different but the genuine receiver is in no danger of confusion.
- 2019, Ioanna Iordanou, Venice's Secret Service: Organizing Intelligence in the Renaissance, Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780192508836), page 139:
- Indeed, Willaert was unable to read Charles's musical notation because it was actually a musical cryptogram passing for a madrigal, making absolutely no sense to a mere musician's naked eye, despite his towering talent.
- 1981, Norma Gleason, Cryptograms and Spygrams, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486240367), page 7:
- (games) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.
- 2007, Charles Seife, Decoding the Universe, Penguin (ISBN 9781101201275)
- You already know this if you are an amateur codebreaker. On the comics pages of many newspapers, you will find a little puzzle known as a cryptogram. It's usually a famous quotation that has been encrypted in a very straightforward way […]
- 2007, Charles Seife, Decoding the Universe, Penguin (ISBN 9781101201275)
- Portuguese: criptograma
- Spanish: criptograma
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