Meanings
nounGronsfeld cipher (plural Gronsfeld ciphers)
plural Gronsfeld ciphers
- A variant of the Vigenère cipher that uses only ten different cipher alphabets, corresponding to the digits 0 to 9.
Origin
The cipher's invention was attributed by Gaspar Schott to Count Gronsfeld (Josse Maximilaan van Gronsveld né van Bronckhorst).
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