product cipher: Quick Facts

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Diagram explaining the German ADFGVX cipher from World War I, showing a biliteral substitution array, examples of plaintext and intermediate ciphertext in red, and a transposition matrix with final ciphertext in blue.

DES flow diagram

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fractionation cipher system ADFGVX cipher cipher Data Encryption Standard public-key cryptography transposition cipher substitution cipher