"Nihilist cipher" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Nihilist ciphers [plural]
Etymology: The cipher was originally used by Russian Nihilists in the 1880s to organise terrorism against the tsarist regime. Head templates: {{en-noun|head=Nihilist cipher}} Nihilist cipher (plural Nihilist ciphers)
  1. (cryptography, historical) A symmetric cipher in which a Polybius square using a mixed alphabet is used to convert both the plain text and a keyword to a series of two-digit numbers, which are then summed in the normal way to get the ciphertext, with the key numbers repeated as required; (by extension) any of several improved algorithms based on this. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Cryptography
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