Detecting the language of encrypted text
The Endeavour 2024-03-07
Summary:
Imagine you are a code breaker living a century ago. You’ve intercepted a message, and you go through your bag of tricks, starting with the simplest techniques first. Maybe the message has been encrypted using a simple substitution cipher, so you start with that. Simple substitution ciphers can be broken by frequency analysis: the most […]
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