Sentence examples for encipher from inspiring English sources
'encipher' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of converting plain text into code or cipher text. Example sentence: He used an advanced enciphering algorithm to secure important files.
verb
To convert plain text into cipher; to encrypt
Those, such as Chinese, that encipher meaning in pitch are called "tonal languages".
In the simplest systems of the Vigenère type, the key is a word or phrase that is repeated as many times as required to encipher a message.
Bök wants to encipher his poem "The Xenotext" into a gene which, when implanted into the genome of Deinoccocus radiodurans, will cause the bacterium to produce a protein in response that will then encipher another poem, different but no less meaningful.
The arrangement contains messages in plain text and code, and all but invites visitors to encipher some of their own.
Practically speaking, this means that poorly resourced individuals and groups with cheap, old computers are able to encipher their messages to an extent that they cannot be deciphered by all the secret police in the world, even if they employ every computer ever built in a gigantic, decades-long project to force the locks off the intercepted message.
The Lorenz SZ40 machine used to encipher messages on the teleprinter links between Berlin and all the major German military fronts had two sets of five cipher rotors.
That document key is itself enciphered using recipient's public key.
Dr Green and his colleague Kenn White are leading a forensic audit of Truecrypt, a popular program that enciphers a user's hard disks but which displays some odd-looking behaviour and has rather murky origins (it is open-source, but its designers are anonymous, and are thought to live in eastern Europe).Fixing cryptography is only part of the problem.
Unlike its cousin, cryptography, which makes no attempt to disguise the existence of a message, but rather hides its meaning, a steganographic message need not be enciphered.
Evidence uncovered after the U.S. and British military campaign in Afghanistan indicated that al-Qaeda had purchased sophisticated computer hardware that enabled it to send enciphered communications to terrorist cells and to track U.S. photographic reconnaissance satellites.
In 1470 Leon Battista Alberti published Trattati in cifra ("Treatise on Ciphers"), in which he described the first cipher disk; he prescribed that the setting of the disk should be changed after enciphering three or four words, thus conceiving of the notion of polyalphabeticity.
