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Lilly vs Cilly - What's the difference?

lilly | cilly |

As nouns the difference between lilly and cilly

is that lilly is while 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.

lilly

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , variant of Lily or a pet form of Lillian.
  • , based on the given name, or from the English place name Lilley.
    • English diminutives of female given names ----

    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.