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The purpose of this paper is to point out a correspondence between certain types of linear ciphers and projective planes. With the aid of this correspondence we are then able to answer a number of questions posed in [3].
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Piper, F., Walker, M. Linear ciphers and spreads. J. Cryptology 1, 185–188 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02252876
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