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Noun Concept
Categories: Articles with short description, Classical ciphers, English inventions
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Playfair cipher  Playfir cipher  Playfair square  Playfair system
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The Playfair cipher or Playfair square or Wheatstone–Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique and was the first literal digram substitution cipher. Wikipedia
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The Playfair cipher or Playfair square or Wheatstone–Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique and was the first literal digram substitution cipher. Wikipedia
Early block substitution cipher Wikidata
A manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters (digraphs). Wiktionary
IS A
substitution cipher
DISCOVERER OR INVENTOR
Wheatstone
NAMED AFTER
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair
Wikipedia
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Playfair cipher
Wikidata
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Playfair cipher
Wiktionary
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Playfair cipher
Wikipedia Redirections
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Playfair Cipher, Playfair square, Playfir Cipher, Playfir cipher
Wikidata Alias
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Playfair system

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