Cipher

Cost:  250

A Cipher is a tool used during Hacking to automatically line up sections of the hack to make the attempt much easier. It has 4 chips for buying it once.

This is a Highly Recommended item to purchase before attempting the Mastery Rank 4 Test (Advancing from Rank 4 to 5). 8 Ciphers [ 500 Credits ]  are enough to pass the test with ease.

Ciphers, among other consumables, will be changed from credit buyable to platinum only in the next update. Until that point, All your Ciphers now appear on a single inventory slot, and when activating security consoles this will expend up to 2 of them at once, regardless of only clicking the Cipher button once.

Trivia

 * A Cipher is an algorithm for decryption or encryption.
 * Realistically, it is the only way to not trigger the intrusion detection.