Hill climbing on substitution ciphers
Wildon's Weblog 2018-08-02
Summary:
On Saturday the BSHM held a fascinating meeting The history of cryptography and codes. In the second talk, Solving Historical Ciphers with Modern Means, Klaus Schmeh mentioned an attack on the old-school Turning Grille cipher by the thoroughly new-school method of hill climbing. This got me thinking about whether hill climbing could be an effective […]