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Encryption and Codes

  • 00 What does the "Encryption and codes" menu offer?
  • 01 What is symmetric encryption?
  • 02 What is asymmetric encryption?
  • 03 What is Transposition?
  • 04 What is Substitution?
  • 05 What is a Stream cipher?
  • 06 What is steganography?

Ciphers

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Codes

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Esoteric Programming Languages

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Language games

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Miscellaneous

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  • General Settings
    • 01 What is the GC Wizard?
    • 02 Which functions are in the main view?
  • Coordinates
    • Waypoint Projection
      • 01 How does waypoint projection (bearing) work?
    • Distance and Bearing
      • 01 How does distance and bearing work?
    • Format Converter
      • 01 How does the format converter work?
  • Encryption and Codes
    • Ciphers
      • Abbadon Code
        • 01 What is the Abbadon Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Abbadon Cipher?
      • ADFG(V)X
        • 01 What is the ADFG(V)X Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the ADFG(V)X Cipher?
      • Affine Cipher
        • 01 What is the Affine Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Affine cipher?
      • AMSCO Cipher
        • 01 What ist the AMSCO Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the AMSCO Cipher?
      • Atbash
        • 01 What is the Atbash Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Atbash Cipher?
      • Bacon Cipher
        • 01 What is the Bacon Cipher?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Bacon Cipher?
      • Bifid Cipher
        • 01 What is the Bifid Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Bifid Cipher?
      • Book Cipher
        • 01 What is a Book Cipher?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt with a Book Cipher?
      • Caesar Cipher
        • 01 What is the Caesar Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypto or decrypt using the Caesar Cipher?
      • Chao Cipher
        • 01 What is the Chao Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Chao Cipher?
      • Cipher Disk
        • 01 What is a Cipher disk?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using a Cipher disk?
      • Enigma
        • 01 What is the Enigma?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Enigma?
      • Gronsfeld Cipher
        • 01 What is the Gronsfeld Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Gronsfeld Cipher?
      • Kamasutra
        • 01 What is the Kamasutra Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypto using the Kamasutra Cipher?
      • Railfence Cipher
        • 01 What is the Railfence Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Railfence Cipher?
      • Homophone Cipher
        • 01 What is the Homophone Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Homophone Cipher?
      • Mexican Army Cipher Wheel
        • 01 What is the Mexican Army Cipher Wheel?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Mexican Army Cipher Wheel?
      • Morse Code
        • 01 What is the Morse Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using Morse Code?
      • One-Time Pad
        • 01 What is an One-Time Pad?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using an One-Time Pad?
      • Playfair Cipher
        • 01 What is the Playfair Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Plaifair Cipher?
      • Polybios Square
        • 01 What is the Polybios Square?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Polybios Square?
      • RC4 Encyrption
        • 01 What is RC4?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard enrypt or decrypt using RC4?
      • Rotation
        • 01 What is Rotation?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using Rotation?
      • RSA
        • 01 What is RSA?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using RSA?
        • 03 How can the public key "e" be verified with the prime numbers "p" and "q"?
        • 04 How can the private key "d" be verified with the prime numbers "p" and "q"?
        • 05 How can the private key "d" be calculated with the public key "e" and the prime numbers "p" and "q"?
        • 06 How is N calculated?
        • 07 How is ϕ calculated?
      • Scytale
        • 01 What is a Scytale?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using a Scytale?
      • Solitaire Cipher
        • 01 What is the Solitaire Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Solitaire Cipher?
      • Straddling Checkerboard
        • 01 What is the Straddling Checkerboard?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Straddling Checkerboard?
      • Tap Code
        • 01 What is the Tap Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Tap Code?
      • Tapir Substitution Cipher
        • 01 What is the TAPIR Substitution Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the TAPIR Substitution?
      • TomTom Code
        • 01 What is the TomTom Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using TomTom Code?
      • Trifid
        • 01 What is the Trifid Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Trifid Cipher?
      • Trithemius Cipher
        • 01 What is the Trithemius Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Trithemius Cipher?
      • Vigenère Cipher
        • 01 What is the Vigenère Cipher?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Vigenère Cipher?
        • 03 How can I crack a Vigenère encryption?
        • 04 How does GC Wizard supports to break a Vigenère Cipher?
    • Codes
      • Alphabet Values
        • 01 What are Alphabet/letter values?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using Alphabet/letter values?
      • ASCII and Unicode (UTF-8)
        • 01 What is the ASCII-Code?
        • 02 What is Unicode?
        • 03 What is UTF-8?
        • 05 How does GC Wizard converts ASCII and Unicode/UTF-8?
      • Base Code
        • 01 What are Base encodings?
        • 02 What is the Base16 encoding?
        • 03 What is the Base32 encoding?
        • 04 What is the Base64 encoding?
        • 05 What ist the Base85 encoding?
      • BCD Code
        • 01 What are BCD encodings?
        • 02 Which BCD encodings does the GC Wizard know?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard encode and decode using BCD encodings?
      • CCITT-1 - Baudot Code
        • 01 What is the CCITT-1 Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the CCITT-1 Code?
      • CCITT-2 - Baudot Murray Code
        • 01 What is the CCITT-2 Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the CCITT-2 Code?
      • Gray Code
        • 01 What is the Gray Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the Gray Code?
      • Kenny's Code
        • 01 What is Kenny's Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using Kenny's Code?
      • Z22
        • 01 What is the Z22 Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the Z22 Code?
    • Esoteric Programming Languages
      • Beatnik
        • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Beatnik?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Beatnik-Program?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Beatnik-Program?
        • 04 What is the structure of a Beatnik-Program?
      • Brainf** and trivial Substitutions
        • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Brainf**k?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Brainf**k program?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Brainf**k program?
        • 04 How is a Brainf**k program structured?
      • Chef
        • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Chef?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Chef Program?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Chef-Program?
        • 04 What is the structure of a Chef-Program?
        • 05 What are common errors when writing a Chef-Program?
      • Cow
        • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Cow?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Cow program?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Cow program?
        • 04 How is a Cow program structured?
      • Deadfish
        • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Deadfish?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard interprets a Deadfish program?
        • 03 How does GC Wizard generates a Deadfish program?
        • 04 How is a Deadfish program structured?
      • Malbolge
        • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Malbolge?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard interpret a Malbolge program?
        • 03 How does the GC Wizard generate a Malbolge program?
        • 04 How is a Malbolge program structured?
      • Ook
        • 01 What is the esoteric language Ook!?
        • 02 How does GC-Wizard interpret an Ook!-Program?
        • 03 How does GC-Wizard generate an Ook!-Program?
      • Whitespace
        • 01 What is the esoteric programming language Whitespace?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard interpret a Whitespace program?
        • 03 How does GC Wizard generate a Whitespace program?
        • 04 How is a Whitespace program structured?
      • 01 What are Esoteric Programming Languages?
    • Language games
      • Chicken Language
        • 01 What is Chicken Language?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using Chicken Language?
      • Duck Speak
        • 01 What is Duck Speak?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using Duck Speak?
      • Pig Latin
        • 01 What is Pig Latin?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using Pig Latin?
      • Robber Language
        • 01 What is Robber Language?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using the Robber Language?
      • Spoon Language
        • 01 What is the Spoon Language?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode using the Spoon Language?
      • 01 What are Language games?
    • Miscellaneous
      • Burrows-Wheeler Transformation
        • 01 What is the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encrypt or decrypt using the Burrows-Wheeler Transformation?
      • Enclosed Areas
        • 01 What are Enclosed Areas?
        • 02 How do you use Enclosed Areas?
      • Gade
        • 01 What does Gade mean?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard calculate a Gade?
      • GC-Code
        • 01 What is the GC-Code?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard encode or decode a GC Code?
      • Hashes
        • 01 What are Hashes?
        • 02 What is MD2?
        • 02 What is MD4?
        • 04 What is MD5?
        • 05 What is SHA?
        • 06 What is SHA-1?
        • 07 What is SHA-2?
        • 08 What is SHA-3?
        • 09 What is Keccak?
        • 10 What is BLAKE2b?
        • 11 What is RIPEMD?
        • 12 What is Tiger?
        • 13 What is Whirlpool?
        • 15 How does GC Wizard calculate Hashes?
      • Numeral Words
        • 01 What does the function "Numeral Words" do?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard searches Numeral words?
        • 03 Which Numeral Words does the GC Wizard list?
      • Replacements
        • 01 What does Replacements mean?
        • 02 How do you use Replacements?
      • Reverse
        • 01 Does GC Wizard supports backwards writing/reverse writing?
        • 01 What does the function "Reverse" do?
      • Roman Numbers
        • 01 What are Roman Numbers?
        • 02 How does the GC Wizard convert Roman Numbers?
        • 03 How does GC Wizard searches Roman Numbers within a text - Chronogramm?
    • 00 What does the "Encryption and codes" menu offer?
    • 01 What is symmetric encryption?
    • 02 What is asymmetric encryption?
    • 03 What is Transposition?
    • 04 What is Substitution?
    • 05 What is a Stream cipher?
    • 06 What is steganography?
  • Games
    • Scrabble
      • 01 What can Scrabble do?
      • 02 How are the values calculated?
      • 03 How are the frequencies calculated?
    • Sudoku Solver
      • 01 How does the Sudoku solver work?
    • 01 What games are implemented?
  • General Code Solver
    • 00 What are General Codesolvers?
    • 01 How does the Substitution Breaker work?
    • 04 How does the Vigenère Code Breaker work?
  • Science and Technology
    • Astronomy
      • 01 Which functions fall under the field of astronomy?
      • 02 What calculations take place at sunrise/sunset?
      • 03 What calculations take place for the position of the sun?
      • 04 What calculations take place at moonrise/sunset?
      • 05 What calculations take place on the position and phase of the moon?
      • 06 How do I calculate Easter Sunday in a given year?
      • 07 How do I show the years of a particular Easter Sunday (Month/Day)?
      • 08 How do I show the beginning of the season as well as solar distances?
    • Binary Numbers
      • 01 How can I decode/encode binary numbers?
    • Colors
      • 01 How can I convert different color spaces?
    • Combinatorics
      • 01 Which functions are available in the combinatorics section?
      • 02 What is listed in the Combination function?
      • 03 What is listed in the Permutation function?
      • 04 What is listed in the permuted combinations function?
    • Cross Sum/Digit Sum
      • 01 Which functions are available in the Cross sums area?
      • 02 How do I find the sum of the digits and its variants?
      • 03 How do I find numbers of a range that have a certain sum of digits?
      • 04 How do I find numbers of a range that have a certain iterated sum of digits?
      • 05 How do I find the frequency of cross sums in a range?
      • 06 How do I find the frequency of iterated cross sums in a range?
    • Date and Time functions
      • 01 Which calculations are mapped under date and time functions?
      • 02 How is the number of days calculated?
      • 03 How does the time calculator work?
      • 04 How does the weekday calculator work?
    • Decabit
      • 01 What is Decabit
      • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using the Decabit Code?
    • DNA/mRNA
      • 01 What are the functions of DNA/mRNA?
      • 02 How can I decode/encode a nucleotide sequence?
      • 03 How can I decode/encode Amino acid Symbols?
      • 04 How can I display the Amino acid overview?
    • DTMF
      • 01 What is DTMF?
      • 02 How does GC Wizard encode DTMF?
      • 03 How does GC Wizard decode DTMF?
    • e
      • 01 Which functions are provided for e (e=2.7182818...)?
      • 02 How do I determine the nth decimal place?
      • 03 How do I display the desired Range?
      • 04 How do I search for occurrences of a sequence of digits?
    • Hexadecimal Numbers
      • 01 How can I decode/encrypt hexadecimal numbers?
    • Irrational Numbers
      • 01 What are Irrational Numbers?
      • 02 What are the functions for irrational numbers?
    • Keyboard Layouts
      • 01 What are Keyboard Layouts?
      • 02 How does GC Wizard convert between keyboard layouts?
      • 02 How does the GC Wizard convert between different keyboard layouts?
    • Number Sequences
      • 01 What are Number Sequences?
      • 02 Which Number Sequences are supported by GC Wizard?
      • 02.1 What does the function "Calculate the nth number" do?
      • 02.2 What does the function "List numbers in an index range" do?
      • 02.3 What does the function "Check if a number belongs to the number sequence" do?
      • 02.4 What does the function "Check whether a sequence of digits belongs to a number in the number sequence" do?
      • 02.5 What does the function "List numbers with a certain number of digits" do?
      • 03 What calculations can be performed on the number sequences?
      • 04 What is the Fermat Sequence?
      • 05 What is the Mersenne Sequence?
      • 06 What is the Mersenne-like Sequence including the Fermat Numbers?
      • 07 What is the Lucas Sequence?
      • 08 What is the Pell Sequence?
      • 09 What is the Jacobsthal Sequence?
      • 10 What is the Pell-Lucas Sequence?
      • 11 What is the Jacobsthal-Lucas Sequence?
      • 12 What is the Catalan Sequence?
      • 13 What is the Recamán Sequence?
      • 14 What is the Fibonacci Sequence?
      • 15 What is Factorial?
      • 16 What are Mersenne Primes?
      • 17 What are Mersenne Exponents?
      • 18 What are Perfect Numbers?
      • 19 What are Superperfect Numbers?
      • 20 What are Pseudoperfect Numbers?
      • 21 What are Weird Numbers?
      • 22 What are Sublime Numbers?
      • 23 What is the Jacobsthal-Oblong Sequence?
      • 24 What is the Bell Sequence?
    • Numeral Systems (Radix)
      • 01 What are Numeral Systems?
      • 02 How does the GC Wizard support using Numeral Systems?
    • Apparent Temperature
      • Humidex
        • 01 What is the Humidex?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Humidex?
      • Heat Index
        • 01 What is the Heat Index?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Heat Index?
      • Windchill
        • 01 What is Windchill?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Windchill?
      • Summer Simmer Index
        • 01 What is the Summer Simmer Index?
        • 02 How does GC Wizard calculates the Summer Simmer Index?
      • 01 What are apparent temperatures?
    • Periodic Table of the Elements
      • 01 What are the functions in the periodic table of the elements?
      • 02 What information can I find in the data view?
    • Phi
      • 01 Which functions are provided for Phi (Φ=1.6180339...)?
      • 02 How do I determine the nth decimal place?
      • 03 How do I display the desired Range?
      • 04 How do I search for occurrences of a sequence of digits?
    • Phone Keys (Vanity)
      • 01 What does Phone keys (Vanity) means?
      • 02 How does GC Wizard support calculating with Vanity?
    • Pi
      • 01 Which functions are provided for pi (π=3.1415926...)?
      • 02 How do I determine the nth decimal place?
      • 03 How do I display the desired Range?
      • 04 How do I search for occurrences of a sequence of digits?
    • Prime Numbers
      • 01 What are Prime numbers?
      • 02 How do I determine the nth prime number?
      • 03 How do I check for a prime number?
      • 04 How do I find the closest prime number?
      • 05 How do I find the position of a prime number?
      • 06 How do I decompose a number into prime numbers?
    • Projectiles/ Bullets
      • 01 How do I calculate the energy, mass or velocity of a projectile?
    • Resistor
      • 01 What are Resistor Color Codes?
      • 02 How does GC Wizard support calculating with Resistor Codes?
    • Segment Display
      • 01 What are Segment Displays?
      • 02 How does GC Wizard encode and decode using Segment Displays?
    • Unit Converter
      • 01 How do I convert different units?
    • Wind Force (Beaufort)
      • 01 What is Windspeed?
      • 02 What is Windforce/Beaufort?
      • 03 How does GC Wizard supports calculating with Windspeed and Windforce?
    • 00 What does the "Science and Technology" menu offer?
  • Examples
    • Examples
  • Cooperation
    • Supporting with Symbols
      • 01 How do I support with symbol tables?
    • Supporting with Translations
      • 01 How can I contribute with translations?
      • 02 How do I help translate the online manual?
      • 03 How do I help translate the GC Wizard strings?
    • 01 What kind of contributions are appreciated?
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