Timeline for Obtaining the key length of a columnar transposition, given a known plaintext word

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Nov 13, 2016 at 16:40	history	edited	Ilmari Karonen	CC BY-SA 3.0	make the title more accurate
Apr 23, 2014 at 20:25	history	edited	Ilmari Karonen		edited tags
Jan 9, 2012 at 1:07	history	edited	Ilmari Karonen		edited tags
Jan 7, 2012 at 8:26	history	tweeted			twitter.com/#!/StackCrypto/status/155566059489988608
Jan 6, 2012 at 17:17	vote	accept	cian1500ww
Jan 6, 2012 at 16:01	answer	added	Ilmari Karonen		timeline score: 7
S Jan 6, 2012 at 14:29	history	suggested	Ilmari Karonen	CC BY-SA 3.0	copyediting
Jan 6, 2012 at 14:24	review	Suggested edits
S Jan 6, 2012 at 14:29
Jan 5, 2012 at 16:52	comment	added	cian1500ww		I've updated the question with the actual question from the paper. As you can see, all I know is it's not a substitution cipher. The fact that the keylength is being looked for leads me to think that it's either a Vigenere cipher or auto-encipher(auto-key).
Jan 5, 2012 at 16:50	history	edited	cian1500ww	CC BY-SA 3.0	Added actual question
Jan 4, 2012 at 12:35	comment	added	Paŭlo Ebermann		Yes, please help us answer your question by providing information about the used cipher.
Jan 1, 2012 at 19:56	history	edited	Ilmari Karonen		edited tags
Jan 1, 2012 at 19:55	comment	added	Ilmari Karonen		Could you describe the cipher you're trying to analyze? I assume it's some variant of the autokey cipher, but it would help to know the details.
Dec 31, 2011 at 13:39	history	asked	cian1500ww	CC BY-SA 3.0