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using other techniques other than brute force to attempt to derive the key;
some cases test the efficiency of a cryptographic algorithm.



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1 Cryptanalysis 2 Cryptography



3 Enigma Machine 4 NSA: Type 2 Algorithms



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science of altering communication so that it cannot be
Cryptography
understood without having the key

Mono-Alphabet algorithms simply substitute one character of cipher
Substitution text for each character of plain text.

choose a number by which to shift each letter of a
Caesar Cipher
text.

Hebrew code substitutes first letter of alphabet for
ATBASH Cipher
last, second letter for the second-to-the-last

ROT13 Cipher characters rotated 13 characters

Greek, written across leather, and wrapped around
Scytale
physical cylinder

easy to break, preserve underlying letter and word
Substitution Weaknesses
frequency

Multi-Alphabet use multiple alphabets,
Substitution

Cipher Disk Leon Alberti in 1466, polyalphabetic;

1553 by Giovan Battista; until early 1900s, multi-
Vigenère Cipher
alphabet, 26X26

uses a 5 by 5 table containing a keyword or phrase
Playfair Cipher
encrypts two letters rather than one.

ADFGVX 36-letter alphabet; six-by-six square of letters,

Used In World War II the Germans; electromechanical
Enigma Machine
rotor-based cipher system;

WWII American similar to the Enigma machine, but
SIGABA
with improvements and more security.

WWII British similar to the Enigma machine, but with
TypeX
improvements and more security.


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