Usually means: Historic cipher, encrypts pairs, simple.
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  1. Playfair: Wordnik
  2. Playfair: Wiktionary
  3. Playfair (Martian crater), Playfair (surname), Playfair: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. Playfair: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (Playfair)

noun:  A surname.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A number of craters in Solar System
noun:  A crater in Mars, Solar System
noun:  A crater in Moon, Earth-Moon System, Solar System
noun:  (cryptography) an encryption using the Playfair cipher
noun:  (crosswording) A form of crossword in which some words must be encrypted with a Playfair cipher before being inserted into the grid, and solvers must deduce the codeword and the encrypted clues.
noun:  (cryptography) Ellipsis of Playfair cipher.. [A manual symmetric encryption technique that encrypts pairs of letters (digraphs).]

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