Virtual Cubes

Cryptography Cube

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Cryptography Cube

This cube organises 48 characters into pairs to form a 'basic substitution cipher'. It allows to encrypt plaintext into ciphertext, but also to decrypt it back into plaintext. The cube can be scrambled to create a 'complex transposition cipher'. Additional single move scrambles between characters creates a 'complex polyalphabetic substitution cipher' like those used by mechanical cipher machines used in World War II. Irregular pentagon shapes display the orientation of the side parts. Because of this, the cube can also be used as a Super Cube, which has 2048 times more positions then a regular Rubik's Cube.

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