Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In telecommunication, a scrambler is a device that transposes or inverts signals or otherwise encodes a message at the transmitter to make the message unintelligible at a receiver not equipped with an appropriately set descrambling device. Note: Scramblers usually use a fixed algorithm or mechanism. However, a scrambler provides communications privacy that is inadequate for classified traffic. Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188 This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.