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Zodiac's use of ciphers, astrological symbols and clues provides fertile ground for investigation.
The Biuro Szyfrów (, Polish for "Cipher Bureau") was the interwar Polish General Staff's agency charged with both cryptography (the use of ciphers and codes) and cryptology (the study of ciphers and codes, particularly for the purpose of "breaking" them).
The Bureau was charged with both cryptography — the generation, and supervision of the use, of ciphers and codes — and cryptology, the study of ciphers and codes, particularly for the purpose of "breaking" them.
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In between, one gets a full meal of the war's vital ancillary components: technical aspects of how armies and navies were structured; the use of codes, ciphers and intelligence; analyses of artillery and cavalry clashes as well as military medicine.
During the Civil War the Union Army made extensive use of transposition ciphers, in which a key word indicated the order in which columns of the array were to be read and in which the elements were either plaintext words or code word replacements for plaintext.
The use of the cipher and the decimal system is confirmed by inscriptions.
Finally, the security of a system depends on the correct use of each cipher, considering the characteristics of the data stored in each field.
"Illegals use many methods to exchange information with each other, including brush-passes, short-wave radio operation and invisible writing, use of codes and ciphers, including the use of encrypted Morse code messages, the creation and use of a cover profession.
That way you have a list of ciphers you can use in stacked ciphers, and you won't need rules to make them more complicated if they're already hard to crack.
There was also some use of a class of product ciphers known as fractionation systems, wherein a substitution was first made from symbols in the plaintext to multiple symbols (usually pairs, in which case the cipher is called a biliteral cipher) in the ciphertext, which was then encrypted by a final transposition, known as superencryption.
While Caesar's was the first recorded use of this scheme, other substitution ciphers are known to have been used earlier.
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