[Cryptography] What is the difference between a code and a cipher?
Tom Mitchell
mitch at niftyegg.com
Thu Sep 4 20:22:32 EDT 2014
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Peter Fairbrother <zenadsl6186 at zen.co.uk>
wrote:
> Old chestnut - is it being intended to be hard to decrypt? Having a
> variable key? Something else?
>
> I don't know whether there is a definitive answer, but opinions are sought.
>
>
Cypher.... scrambled
Code .... words or phrases replace phrases or words.
A football team often uses code words to call a play.
A baseball coaching staff might use stenography to call plays.
"Code talkers" used a different language to implement a code.
Morse code... replaces letters, words, phrases with dots and dashes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher
One size does not fit all.
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T o m M i t c h e l l
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