Qualities of Columbine Plants, Some of the Different Types. Columbines come in many colors; some are even bi-colored. These perennials can have red, yellow, white, blue, pink, salmon, or purple blossoms. They are airy plants with attractive foliage (clover-like when young).
A cypherpunk is an activist advocating widespread use of strong cryptography as a route to social and political change. Originally communicating through the Cypherpunks electronic mailing list, informal groups aimed to achieve privacy and security through proactive use of cryptography.
Also includes runically unrelated blackletter writing style and pigpen cipher. In cryptography, a cipher (or cypher) is an algorithm for performing encryption or decryptionâa series of well-defined steps that can be followed as a procedure. An alternative, less common term is encipherment. To encipher or encode is to convert information into cipher or code. In common parlance, 'cipher' is synonymous with 'code', as they are both a set of steps that encrypt a message; however, the concepts are distinct in cryptography, especially classical cryptography.