The Hill cipher is a historic polygraphic substitution cipher invented by Lester S. Hill in 1929.
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Hill Cipher known plaintext attack
I know a plaintext - ciphertext couple of length 6 for a hill cipher where its key is a [3x3] matrix.
Based on what I've read and learned, to attack and crack keys of [n x n], if we know a plaintext ...
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Figuring out key in hill cipher (chosen-plaintext attack)
I have been wondering what approach to take in order to figure out what key was used to encrypt a message using the hill cipher.
I know it is possible to obtain it even if it were just a ...
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Hill cipher, unknown letter value
I've been struggling on this problem for a while now : the Hill cipher is well-known to be vulnerable to known-plaintext attack due to its linearity. Given a key matrix $K$ of size $n\times n$, one ...
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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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Security analysis of a “one-time pad” type hill cipher
Suppose the Hill cipher were modified to something like a one-time pad cipher, where Alice wants to send a message to Bob, and she chooses a key matrix randomly everytime a new message is sent (and ...
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Are there any hand ciphers not obsoleted by computer cryptanalysis?
Computerized cryptanalysis has obviously made formerly "secure" hand ciphers like Playfair, Four Square, and the Hill Cipher obsolete because they can be defeated in seconds. But is there a hand ...
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Why does my implementation of CBC mode only decrypt the first block correctly? [closed]
I have the following code that uses a CBC mode to encrypt a text by dividing it to 3-elements block. But it only works correctly on the first block which is xored with the IV.
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