Definition of Wheatstone cipher
:a progressive-alphabet cipher in which the next alphabet is used whenever the plaintext letter does not stand later in the plain component than the preceding plaintext letter
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Origin and Etymology of wheatstone cipher
after Sir Charles Wheatstone
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