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Meaning of rail fence cipher | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

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.

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

rail fly rail freight rail gauge rail grinder rail gun rail hail

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