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Cilly vs Freezing - What's the difference?

cilly | freezing |

As nouns the difference between cilly and freezing

is that cilly is (cryptography|dated) any predictable facet of the cipher due to operator error or laziness, whose existence helped the allies to break the code while freezing is (uncountable|physics|chemistry) the change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.

As an adjective freezing is

(literally) suffering or causing frost.

As a verb freezing is

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cilly

English

Noun

(cillies)
  • (cryptography, dated) Any predictable facet of the cipher due to operator error or laziness, whose existence helped the Allies to break the code.
  • * 2000 , Simon Singh, The Code Book
    • Another type of cilly was the repeated use of the same message key, perhaps the initials of the operator's girlfriend...
  • * 2002 , Ronald L Krutz, Russell Dean Vines, The CISSP Prep Guide: Gold Edition?
    • Answer c is a reference to a cilly , which was a three-character message key used in the German Enigma machine.
  • * 2005 , Brian J Winkel, Cipher A Deavours, David Kahn, Louis Kruh, The German Enigma cipher machine
    • Taunt describes the work involved in breaking Enigma messages, cribs, cillies , the Herivel tip, help from Bombes and more.
  • * 2006 , Rebecca Ann Ratcliff, Delusions of intelligence: Enigma, Ultra and the end of secure ciphers?
    • By 1944, cillies had already become rare; hence, Bletchley Park had already found other breaks into the Enigma nets.
  • * 2007 , Friedrich Ludwig Bauer, Decrypted secrets: methods and maxims of cryptology?
    • Cillies resulted from a combination of two different mistakes in a multi-part message by some Enigma operators.

    freezing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (literally) Suffering or causing frost
  • (by extension, chiefly, hyperbole) Very cold

    • Synonyms

    * (literally) frosty * (very cold) ice-cold, icy

    Noun

    (wikipedia freezing)
  • (uncountable, physics, chemistry) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.
  • * 1829 , James Macauley, The natural, statistical, and civil history of the state of New York
    • Hence, there is a succession of thawings and freezings . The former expand, and endeavour to restore the surface of the ground to its natural condition, while the latter contract and harden it.
  • (countable, medicine) The action of numbing with anesthetics.

    • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Related terms

    * freeze-dry * freezer

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * freezing point