railfence

The rail fence is a transposition cipher where the text is 
written upwards and downwards diagonally (zigzag) on the rails of the fence

Classical cryptography methods for words and brief phrases.
Substitution, transposition and concealment (null) ciphers are available, like
Caesar, Vigenère, Atbash, affine, simple substitution, Playfair,
rail fence, Scytale, single column, and Polybius ciphers.

Luigi Annicchiarico

ciphertext

Classical Cryptography Methods for Words and Phrases

railfence function

<dl><dt>word</dt>
<dd>Word or phrase to be encrypted</dd>
<dt>key</dt>
<dd>numeric key (number of rails)</dd></dl>

Arguments

railfence — railfence

<dl>

<dt>word</dt>
<dd>Word or phrase to be encrypted</dd>


<dt>key</dt>
<dd>numeric key (number of rails)</dd>

</dl>

railfence: railfence

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