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رمزنگاری جانشینی

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method of encoding by which units of plaintext are replaced with ciphertext, according to a fixed system; the "units" may be single letters (the most common), pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth

Key facts

Field
Cryptography
First published
Around 850 CE
Related methods
Transposition cipher , polyalphabetic cipher , homophonic substitution cipher , one-time pad
Key size
Varies (typically 88 bits for mixed alphabet simple substitution)
Cryptanalysis
Frequency analysis

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Subclass of
cipher
Image
Caesar cipher left shift of 3.svg
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discoverer or inventor
Al-Kindi
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