Analysis of four historical ciphers against known plaintext frequency statistical attack

The need of keeping information securely began thousands of years. The practice to keep the information securely is by scrambling the message into unreadable form namely ciphertext. This process is called encryption. Decryption is the reverse process of encryption. For the past, historical ciphers a...

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Main Authors: Wen, Chuah Chai, Samylingam, Vivegan A/L, Darmawan, Irfan, Palaniappan, P.Siva Shamala A/P, Mohd. Foozy, Cik Feresa, Ramli, Sofia Najwa, Alawatugoda, Janaka
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit UTHM 2018
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Online Access:http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3677/1/AJ%202018%20%28718%29%20Analysis%20of%20four%20historical%20ciphers%20against%20known%20plaintext%20frequency%20statistical%20attack.pdf
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Summary:The need of keeping information securely began thousands of years. The practice to keep the information securely is by scrambling the message into unreadable form namely ciphertext. This process is called encryption. Decryption is the reverse process of encryption. For the past, historical ciphers are used to perform encryption and decryption process. For example, the common historical ciphers are Hill cipher, Playfair cipher, Random Substitution cipher and Vigenère cipher. This research is carried out to examine and to analyse the security level of these four historical ciphers by using known plaintext frequency statistical attack. The result had shown that Playfair cipher and Hill cipher have better security compare with Vigenère cipher and Random Substitution cipher.