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He looks creepy in most photographs, almost like the child never grew up, but reached the age he did, and landed there by charlatanery, being the empty emperor the cipher is.— Hot Air » Top Picks
Geithner himself is a cipher, which is exactly the reason Obama chose him.— Latest Articles
The exact operation of a cipher is controlled by a key, which is a secret parameter for the cipher algorithm.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
The papers I have not examined; I merely looked at them to make certain that the cipher was there, and, finding that it was, I troubled no further.— Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
It was in the German spy-cipher, the same used all over the world by German secret agents--the most simple yet at the same time the most marvellous and complicated code that the world has ever known The keys to the code were in twelve sentences that one committed to memory.— The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia

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