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Article #504Re: transposition ciphers
From: Jonathan Thornburg
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 07:41
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 07:41
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In article <92207.142318U27239@uicvm.uic.edu> Gerald Strom
<U27239@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>The following is a little piece I wrote recently about transposition
>ciphers. As I am far from being an expert in this field, I hope I
>didn't get too much wrong and I would appreciate comments.
> [description and C code deleted]
Shouldn't you also point out that any transposition cipher can be
broken by multiple anagramming? Kahn "The Codebreakers" discusses
this and gives a couple of examples of broken transposition ciphers,
I believe dating back to the US civil war and the 1884 (?) US
presidential election.
- Jonathan Thornburg
<jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu> or <jonathan@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu>
University of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity
and (for a few more months) U of British Columbia / {Astronomy,Physics}
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!jonathan From: jonathan@chpc.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg) Subject: Re: transposition ciphers Message-ID: <1992Jul26.074121.15669@chpc.utexas.edu> Summary: say that transposition ciphers can be broken by multiple anagramming? Keywords: cipher transposition multiple anagram broken US civil war Sender: jonathan@einstein.ph.utexas.edu (Jonathan Thornburg) Organization: U of Texas at Austin / Physics Dept / Center for Relativity References: <92207.142318U27239@uicvm.uic.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 07:41:21 GMT Lines: 17