rail fence cipher (English, noun)
expansion: rail fence cipher (plural rail fence ciphers)
Senses:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: rail fence ciphers
tags: plural