encipher
Example Sentences
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“Then you wait. You wait for someone to hand you a message to encipher. At that point you’ll need to pick a starting position and message key—six letters.”
From Literature
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“And of course, what they mean by that is enciphered messages.”
From Scientific American
He helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine, and so shortening World War Two and saving lives.
From BBC
“When this was first encountered, and I had puzzled over it for all the time I could spare,” Elizebeth wrote, “I decided to make the assumption that it was enciphered code.”
From Literature
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The work of Turing helped accelerate Allied efforts to read German Naval messages enciphered with the Enigma machine.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.