英 [ˈsaɪfə(r)] 美 [ˈsaɪfər]
n. 密码，暗号（=cypher）；以密码书写的东西；解码；<旧>零，数字0；<正式>无足轻重的人，不重要的东西；（姓名首字母的）拼合字，花押；（管风琴音管因机械故障发出的）连响
v. 把（消息）写成密码；<古>做算术；（管风琴音管）连响
复数ciphers
第三人称单数ciphers
现在分词ciphering
过去式ciphered
过去分词ciphered
cipher /ˈsaɪfə/
可数名词 A cipher is a secret system of writing that you use to send messages. 密码
...converting their messages into ciphers.
...把他们的信息转为密码。
a message written in a secret code
同义词： cypher
a secret method of writing
同义词： cypher / cryptograph / secret code
密码-引用次数：451
A novel block cipher based on chaotic systems is presented.
3.提出了一种新的基于混沌的分组密码算法。
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加解密技术-引用次数：2
参考来源电子政务的网络信息安全研究
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凯撒加密法
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... attrib文件属性 cipher文件加密 comp文件比拟 ...
《双星记》(CIPHER) 就是这样一部让我心动的漫画。也许对于现代的漫迷们它的年代已太久远，但说不出原因的，每看一次我就会被打动一次。
All important plans were sent to the police in cipher.
所有重要计划均以密码送往警方。
The listener deciphers what you said according to his own reference of blueness and transmits it to you in his own cipher.
听者根据他自己对蓝色的理解来破解你的话，再用他自己的密码传达给你。
RC2 is a block cipher algorithm.
RC 2是一个块密码算法。
They deny completely having given any kind of cipher keys or whatever encryption keys you would need to "crack" their encryption.
VOA : standard.2010.08.11
You can brute force it and unfortunately, the so-called Caesar cipher is not very secure because if you assume, for our purposes in English alphabet with 26 characters, say all lowercase for all uppercase, my God, you only have to try like 24, 25, 26 possible rotations until you can figure out what his secret message is.
你可以强行解密但是不幸地是，所谓的凯撒密码不是很安全的,因为如果假设，对于我们的26个字符的字母表,指明所有的小写为大写，我的天，你只要试24，25次，26次就可以解答出,密文的内容。
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This was not the first time that a life hung on the strength of a cipher.
In Mary's case, Elizabeth's master code breaker Thomas Phelippes cracked the cipher and exposed her crime.
Cook has been such a cipher that some are surprised he could act so brutally.
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"cipher"是个多义词，它可以指cipher（词语）,cipher（蔡健雅1999年歌曲）。