What does cryptograph mean?
noun
A cryptograph is a method of secret writing, or a device used for this purpose. It involves encoding a message so that it can only be deciphered by someone with the necessary key or password.
Example
"The cryptograph used by the ancient Greeks was a simple substitution cipher that replaced each letter with a different letter a fixed number of positions down the alphabet."
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