rail fence cipher

English

Noun

rail fence cipher (plural rail fence ciphers)

  1. (cryptography) A transposition cipher in which the plain text is written in a zigzag fashion diagonally up and down on successive "rails" of an imaginary fence, and then the characters are read off in rows to obtain the ciphertext.
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