Route Cipher
The Route Cipher is a transposition cipher. It rearranges the plaintext letters based on a shape of an imaginary path drawn on a grid, which contains all the message letters.
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Secret Key
Choose a secret key value. It will be used to determine the width of the table, which contains all the letters of the message.
Choose a secret key value. It will be used to determine the width of the table, which contains all the letters of the message.
The shape of the path
From top-right corner clockwise to the center
From top-right corner anticlockwise to the center
Choose the shape of the path, which will determine the order of reading letters from the table.
Choose the shape of the path, which will determine the order of reading letters from the table.
From top-right corner anticlockwise to the center
Choose the shape of the path, which will determine the order of reading letters from the table.
Input Message
Enter a message you want to encrypt/decrypt. After that, click the correct button below.
Enter a message you want to encrypt/decrypt. After that, click the correct button below.
Formatted Input Message
Preview the message that actually will be processed. All non-letter characters and empty spaces will be removed from the message.
Preview the message that actually will be processed. All non-letter characters and empty spaces will be removed from the message.
The table where the path is defined, which determines the order of rearranged letters.
The table where the path is defined, which determines the order of rearranged letters.
Output Message
The result of encryption/decryption.
The result of encryption/decryption.