Sentence examples for a cipher device from inspiring English sources

The first recorded use of cryptography for correspondence was by the Spartans, who as early as 400 bc employed a cipher device called the scytale for secret communication between military commanders.

The agents learned, in part from Dr. Ivins himself, that he had in his post-college years made uninvited visits to Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority houses at U.N.C., the University of Maryland and West Virginia University, once making off with a sorority's ritual book and cipher device.

And Bobby has often registered either as a cipher, a device, or a man of convoluted secret lives that the show can't begin to accommodate.

The thriller movie "U-571" was based on the capture of the Nazi cipher device, but the filmmakers stripped the captors of their British identities.

Marian Adam Rejewski (16 August 1905 13 February 198080) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who in December 1932 solved the plugboard-equipped Enigma machine, the main cipher device used by Nazi Germany.

To counteract them, an encryption and authentication system was designed based on chaostheoretical cryptography, on post-processing of pseudo-random bit sequences to enhance their randomness, and on a general ciphering device adding redundancy to and blurring symbol boundaries in transmission units.

The new spot houses, according to a press release, "3,500 rare objects, including mini cameras, spy recorders, and concealment and cipher devices".

Despite his prominent role, Fleece remains a cipher even in flashback, and it gradually becomes clear he's largely a device to let Cole and Gannn) explore the family's background.

Carlebach remains a cipher.

"He's a cipher".

The victim becomes a cipher".