BREAKING SUBSTITUTION CIPHERS USING A RELAXATION ALGORITHM

被引:38
作者
PELEG, S
ROSENFELD, A
机构
[1] University of Maryland, Computer Science Center, College Park
关键词
cryptography; probabilistic classification; relaxation; substitution ciphers;
D O I
10.1145/359168.359174
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
Substitution ciphers are codes in which each letter of the alphabet has one fixed substitute, and the word divisions do not change. In this paper the problem of breaking substitution ciphers is represented as a probabilistic labeling problem. Every code letter is assigned probabilities of representing plaintext letters. These probabilities are updated in parallel for all code letters, using joint letter probabilities. Iterating the updating scheme results in improved estimates that finally lead to breaking the cipher. The method is applied successfully to two examples. © 1979, ACM. All rights reserved.
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页码:598 / 605
页数:8
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