Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Atbash (also transliterated Atbaš) is a simple substitution cipher for the Hebrew alphabet. It consists in substituting aleph (the first letter) for tav (the last), beth (the second) for shin (one before last), and so on, reversing the alphabet. Hence the name, Aleph-Tav-Beth-Shin (אתבש). In the Book of Jeremiah, לב קמי Lev Kamai (51:1) is Atbash for כשדים Kasdim (Chaldeans), and ששך Sheshakh (25:26; 51:41) is Atbash for בבל Bavel (Babylon). It has been associated with the esoteric methodologies of Jewish mysticism's interpretations of Hebrew religious texts as in the Kabbalah.The Atbash cipher for the modern Hebrew alphabet would be: Plain: אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשת Cipher: תשרקצפעסנמלכיטחזוהדגבאAtbash can also be used to mean the same thing in any other alphabet as well. This is a very simple substitution cipher.For example, an Atbash cipher for the Latin alphabet would be as follows: Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Cipher: ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAAn easier, simpler and faster way of doing this is: First 13 letters: A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M Last 13 letters: Z|Y|X|W|V|U|T|S|R|Q|P|O|NIn Atbash, the letters "nlmvb" indicate the word "money".A few English words 'Atbash' into other English words. For example, "hob"="sly", "hold"="slow", "holy"="slob", "horn"="slim", "zoo"="all", "irk"="rip", "low"="old", "glow"="told", and "grog"="tilt." Some other English words Atbash into their own reverses, e.g., "wizard" = "draziw."It is considered a weak cipher because it only has one possible key, and it is a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher. However, this may not have been an issue at the time when the cipher was first devised."@en }
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- Atbash abstract "Atbash (also transliterated Atbaš) is a simple substitution cipher for the Hebrew alphabet. It consists in substituting aleph (the first letter) for tav (the last), beth (the second) for shin (one before last), and so on, reversing the alphabet. Hence the name, Aleph-Tav-Beth-Shin (אתבש). In the Book of Jeremiah, לב קמי Lev Kamai (51:1) is Atbash for כשדים Kasdim (Chaldeans), and ששך Sheshakh (25:26; 51:41) is Atbash for בבל Bavel (Babylon). It has been associated with the esoteric methodologies of Jewish mysticism's interpretations of Hebrew religious texts as in the Kabbalah.The Atbash cipher for the modern Hebrew alphabet would be: Plain: אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשת Cipher: תשרקצפעסנמלכיטחזוהדגבאAtbash can also be used to mean the same thing in any other alphabet as well. This is a very simple substitution cipher.For example, an Atbash cipher for the Latin alphabet would be as follows: Plain: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Cipher: ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBAAn easier, simpler and faster way of doing this is: First 13 letters: A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M Last 13 letters: Z|Y|X|W|V|U|T|S|R|Q|P|O|NIn Atbash, the letters "nlmvb" indicate the word "money".A few English words 'Atbash' into other English words. For example, "hob"="sly", "hold"="slow", "holy"="slob", "horn"="slim", "zoo"="all", "irk"="rip", "low"="old", "glow"="told", and "grog"="tilt." Some other English words Atbash into their own reverses, e.g., "wizard" = "draziw."It is considered a weak cipher because it only has one possible key, and it is a simple monoalphabetic substitution cipher. However, this may not have been an issue at the time when the cipher was first devised.".