1) Literary technique
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In fiction, a MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin or maguffin) is a plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation. The specific nature of a MacGuffin is typically unimportant to the overall plot. The most common type of MacGuffin is an object, place or...
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[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 proceeded very quickly, so quickly that the cipher wa...
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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 thicken for the characters while the audience rem...
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