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Modified Vigenere encryption?
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- Subject: Modified Vigenere encryption?
- From: [email protected] (Skye Merlin Poier)
- Date: Fri, 28 May 93 0:35:57 BST
- Faculty: Computing Science / Mathematics
- Organization: Simon Fraser University
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I was just thinking... What if one were to use Vigenere encryption with a key
at least as long as the message (therefore making the incidence of coincidences
irrelevant)? A key made of, for instance, words strung together from a dictonary
selected pseudorandomly?
Are there other weaknesses in the Vigenere system that are escaping me? Perhaps
one could use (in the pseudorand words example) distribution / transition /
equilibrium proabilities in the english language? If so, are there any other
options for generating a long key without the need for a truly random key (which
would make using the Vigenere table pointless because it would just be an one-
time-pad)?
Also, what are the weaknesses of the Playfair cypher? My texts mention it, but
don't say much of anything other than how it works...
Just pondering at odd hours...
Skye
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