Cilly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cilly is a noun meaning (cryptography, historical) Any predictable facet of the Enigma Machine cipher due to operator error or laziness, whose existence helped the Allies to break the code.
Meaning
(cryptography, historical) Any predictable facet of the Enigma Machine cipher due to operator error or laziness, whose existence helped the Allies to break the code.
Example Sentences
Answer c is a reference to a cilly, which was a three-character message key used in the German Enigma machine.
Cillies resulted from a combination of two different mistakes in a multi-part message by some Enigma operators.
By 1944, cillies had already become rare; hence, Bletchley Park had already found other breaks into the Enigma nets.
Another type of cilly was the repeated use of the same message key, perhaps the initials of the operator's girlfriend […]
Word Forms
- cillies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cryppie, crib, cipher, ciphering, cyphering, crypto.
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