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  2. Decipherment - Wikipedia

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    Decipherment is possible with respect to languages and scripts. One can also study or try to decipher how spoken languages that no longer exist were once pronounced, or how living languages used to be pronounced in prior eras. Notable examples of decipherment include the decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts and the decipherment of cuneiform.

  3. Cipher - Wikipedia

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    Edward Larsson's rune cipher resembling that found on the Kensington Runestone.Also includes runically unrelated blackletter writing style and pigpen cipher.. In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryption—a series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure.

  4. Decipherment of ancient Egyptian scripts - Wikipedia

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    Hardly anyone attempted to decipher hieroglyphs for decades after Kircher's last works on the subject, although some contributed suggestions about the script that ultimately proved correct. [40] William Warburton 's religious treatise The Divine Legation of Moses , published from 1738 to 1741, included a long digression on hieroglyphs and the ...

  5. DECIPHER - Wikipedia

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    DECIPHER is a web-based resource and database of genomic variation data from analysis of patient DNA. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It documents submicroscopic chromosome abnormalities ( microdeletions and duplications ) and pathogenic sequence variants (single nucleotide variants - SNVs, Insertions, Deletions, InDels), from over 25000 patients and maps ...

  6. Ciphertext - Wikipedia

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    The Zimmermann Telegram (as it was sent from Washington to Mexico) encrypted as ciphertext. KGB ciphertext found in a hollow nickel in Brooklyn in 1953. In cryptography, ciphertext or cyphertext is the result of encryption performed on plaintext using an algorithm, called a cipher. [1]

  7. Encryption - Wikipedia

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    A simple illustration of public-key cryptography, one of the most widely used forms of encryption. In cryptography, encryption (more specifically, encoding) is the process of transforming information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode.

  8. Affine cipher - Wikipedia

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    The affine cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher, where each letter in an alphabet is mapped to its numeric equivalent, encrypted using a simple mathematical function, and converted back to a letter.

  9. Decipher (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Decipher, the novel by Stel Pavlou; Decipher (After Forever album), 2001 album; Decipher (John Taylor album) Decipher, Inc., a game publisher based in Norfolk, Virginia, United States; DECIPHER, database of chromosome abnormalities identified from analysis of patient DNA; DECIPHER (software), a program for deciphering and managing biological ...