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单词 countercipher
释义 ˈcountercipher, n.
[ad. F. contrechifre (Cotgr.) = It. contracifera, Sp. contracifra: see counter- 8.]
A cipher that answers to and explains another; the key to a cipher.
1598Florio, Contracifera, a countercifer, a cifer that doth answer another.1611Cotgr., Contrechifre, a counter⁓cypher; a note explanatorie of particular cyphers.1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 70 Where in a secret Cabinet there were Letters found..with Ciphers and Counterciphers.
So counterˈcipher v. [ad. obs. F. contrechifrer ‘to answer cyphers with cyphers; also, to expound cyphers’ (Cotgr.), It. contraciferare (Florio).]
1611Florio, Contraciferare, to countercipher.
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