Question

Route cipher is an example of ____________

(a) mono-alphabetic cipher

(b) poly-alphabetic cipher

(c) transposition cipher

(d) additive cipher

The question was posed to me in unit test.

Asked question is from Cryptography topic in division Cryptography of Data Structures & Algorithms II

Answer 1

Right choice is (c) transposition cipher

The best explanation: Route cipher is a transposition cipher. It falls under the category of transposition cipher as it encrypts the plain text by rearranging its letters.