rail fence cipher

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What does rail fence cipher mean?

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.

How to pronounce rail fence cipher

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