# transposition cipher

> method of encryption by which the positions held by units of plaintext (which are commonly characters or groups of characters) are shifted according to a regular system, so that the ciphertext constitutes a permutation of the plaintext

**Wikidata**: [Q840498](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840498)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_cipher)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/transposition-cipher


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)