• Codeword

    Origin

    code + word

    Full definition of codeword

    Noun

    codeword

    (plural codewords)
    1. (cryptography) A string representing an encoded piece of text.Bob cannot get any information out of the codeword since he doesn't know what transmission bases Alice used.
    2. A type of crossword puzzle where individual letters are represented by numbers and the solver must identify them by their position and frequency.

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