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- 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
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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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