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cipher

Definitions:

  Series of transformations that converts plaintext to ciphertext using the Cipher Key.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015 from FIPS 197

  Any cryptographic system in which arbitrary symbols or groups of symbols, represent units of plain text, or in which units of plain text are rearranged, or both.
Sources:
CNSSI 4009-2015