Question

Rail fence technique is an example of:

• A. Substitution Cipher
• B. Transposition Cipher
• C. Product Cipher
• D. Caesar Cipher

Hint:

Transposition ciphers rearrange characters without altering them, as in the rail fence technique.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

The rail fence technique is a form of transposition cipher. In this cipher: The plaintext characters are rearranged based on a specific pattern (e.g., zigzag pattern) to create the ciphertext. Unlike substitution ciphers, the letters in the plaintext remain the same but are reordered.