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Hill-cipher, disordered alphabet
I am going to apply a simple substitution cipher to my input, then encrypt the result with a Hill cipher. How can this be broken, in a chosen-plaintext threat model?
In other words, instead of the ...
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How can I break a Vigenère cipher with partial plain text?
I have an exercise to do regarding Vigenère encryption.
I've got the cipher text: WNZTNVIEEGTJYKRRWYUELWNZTNV
and a partial plain text: ...
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Cryptanalysing Affine cipher
I am trying to cryptanalyse a cipher–text encrypted by Affine cipher.
The encryption formula is: $c = f(x) = (ax+b)\bmod m$, where $a$ and $b$ are unknown constants; $x$ is a plain-text symbol, and ...
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Assistance Cracking Classical Cipher
Below is the cipher text I am trying to break and as you can see its rather short which is why I am having so much trouble.
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Has there been any cryptanalysis of RC4-52?
Several websites ( such as Is there a secure cryptosystem that can be performed mentally? ) briefly mention RC4-52 as a modification of standard RC4.
RC4-52 has only with 52 instead of 256 elements ...
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Encryption/ciphers/codes in Chinese
I am quite curious as to how you can perform simple encryption for the Chinese language.
Saw a similar question related to encryption/Chinese here: About cryptography in a character language, ...
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Example of CHI Square test on Caesar Cipher?
I am trying to get my head round the chi square test, when used with the Caesar cipher.
I started off using this formula,
$$ X = \sum_{i = 1}^k \frac{f_i · f'_i}{n · n'} $$
Where ...
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How can one break a monoalphbetic substitution chipher at pseudorandom text?
Does anybody know how to break monoalphbetic substitution cipher, if it is applied to some pseudorandom text (for example to some surrogate key filed in a database)?
Let us assume that we have only ...
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How to attack a classical cipher using known partial plaintext?
I have a ciphertext generated by a classical cipher. I do not know what was cipher used to generate it. I do however have the beginning of the plaintext.
What are the cryptanalysis approaches for ...
