This was one of the most secure hand ciphers used in the Second World War. It was used by both the Allies and the Axis, and served both well. Its main weakness was that if the attacker intercepted two ...
Last week’s installment on columnar transposition ciphers described a formula for the underlying permutation for a CTC. If we assume that the number of columns being used divides the length of the ...
However, Agent Madeleine numbered the duplicate A's and L's from right to left instead of from left to right, so it would be the equivalent of replacing the keys with MCHBTUNDILA and CUMLBTJNDIKA, ...