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  • verb Present participle of encipher.

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Examples

  • He mastered the complex German enciphering machine, helping to save the world, and his work laid the basis for modern computer science.

    Bravo, Senator Simpson 2007

  • An apparatus for enciphering and deciphering messages comprising a group of elements adapted to represent successively the characters of the message, a second group of elements adapted to represent successively a series of ciphering characters and means controlled by the joint effect of said groups of elements for indicating the characters of the enciphered or deciphered message .

    Evolution of Software Claims igdmlgd 2005

  • The method of enciphering signals where the characters are represented by a number of periods of different current values which consists in altering the normal code impulses of a character to be transmitted in accordance with a rule represented by some other character in a like code.

    Archive 2005-12-01 igdmlgd 2005

  • An apparatus for enciphering and deciphering messages comprising a group of elements adapted to represent successively the characters of the message, a second group of elements adapted to represent successively a series of ciphering characters and means controlled by the joint effect of said groups of elements for indicating the characters of the enciphered or deciphered message .

    Archive 2005-12-01 igdmlgd 2005

  • The method of enciphering signals where the characters are represented by a number of periods of different current values which consists in altering the normal code impulses of a character to be transmitted in accordance with a rule represented by some other character in a like code.

    Evolution of Software Claims igdmlgd 2005

  • Nevada State Law 205.4742 defines encryption as the use of any protective or disruptive measure, including, without limitation, cryptography, enciphering, encoding or a computer contaminant, to: 1.

    Boing Boing: December 9, 2001 - December 15, 2001 Archives 2001

  • She was required to have expert knowledge of the cipher used in the Department, and a considerable part of her time was employed in enciphering and deciphering telegrams sent from and received by the Department.

    Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission

  • I spent all yesterday afternoon enciphering a telegram which I must get off either through Holland or Antwerp.

    A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium Hugh Gibson 1918

  • These orders were encrypted before being transmitted by a machine known as a Lorenz SZ42 enciphering machine.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Eliminate the risk of storing enciphering keys on disk with the SafeGuard approach of dynamically generating keys from the password

    AvaxHome 2010

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