cnspp-ch02-Classical Encryption Techniques.ppt

* One approach to reducing the spikyness of natural language text is used the Playfair cipher which encrypts more than one letter at once. We now consider the other alternative, using multiple cipher alphabets in turn. This gives the attacker more work, since many alphabets need to be guessed, and because the frequency distribution is more complex, since the same plaintext letter could be replaced by several ciphertext letters, depending on which alphabet is used. * Simply create a set of caesar cipher translation alphabets, then use each in turn, as shown next. For some centuries the Vigenè