Look up: MacGuffin

1. MacGuffin
   Also referred to as `weenie` MacGuffin was coined by Alfred Hitchcock to refer to any situation in the unfolding of a story that motivates the action of a film, whether artificially or substantively. Such a motivational device may take the form of a stolen map or secret papers. The plot will usually...
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2. MacGuffin
   A `MacGuffin` (sometimes `McGuffin` or `maguffin`) is "a plot element that catches the viewers` attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction". The defining aspect of a MacGuffin is that the major players in the story are (at least initially) willing to do and sacrifice almost anything...
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3. MacGuffin
   (cipher) In cryptography, `MacGuffin` is a block cipher created in 1994 by Bruce Schneier and Matt Blaze at a Fast Software Encryption workshop. It was intended as a catalyst for analysis of a new cipher structure, known as Generalized Unbalanced Feistel Networks (GUFNs). The cryptanalysis pr...
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