Railfence and Redfence Cipher

Railfence Cipher

The text is written along a W or M style route and then read line by line. For example, MESSAGE may be written as
M A
E S G
S E
and therefore enciphered as MAESG SE.

This cipher doesn't use a key word. Instead the key consists of two numbers separated by W or M. The first number denotes the number of lines to use, the second denotes how many places in the route shall be omitted before the first letter of the message. The letters W and M depict the start of the route. Thus the example given above used the key 3W0.

Redfence Cipher

This cipher prepares the plain text in the same way as the rail fence cipher, but the lines are not read top-down. Instead a numeric key is derived from a key word and the lines are read according to this numeric key: The key word AND yields the numeric key 1-3-2, so that the example given above results in MASEE SG. The number of lines equals the length of the key, the other parameters are fixed to W0.

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