Associations to the word «Playfair»

Wiktionary

PLAYFAIR, proper noun. A surname​.
PLAYFAIR, noun. (cryptography) the Playfair cipher, or an encryption using it
PLAYFAIR CIPHER, noun. A manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters (digraphs).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky