Cryptology - Unofficial St. Mary's College of California Web Site
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6.7. EXERCISES 103<br />
Frequency count:<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
1 6 8 11 0 2 7 10 9 7 0 4 0 13 2 6 14 0 2 13 1 2 3 4 0 3<br />
3. Decrypt the following cipher.<br />
PYJQG KYUQR CQEQR LOTGQ RQTRT RYTAH KYLTE HAWEJ QRWHQ RCTAW UHEWR<br />
PQAYW UQKWV YDWEH YPNGT RQHLT UYHQL YHKWR QHPYE YUVYE JKWUF YEBWB<br />
BWCY<br />
Frequency count:<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
4 3 3 1 8 1 3 9 0 3 5 4 0 1 1 4 13 10 0 8 6 2 11 0 14 0<br />
4. Fletcher Pratt used a Keyword Cipher to encipher the following message.<br />
Can you decrypt it, and recover the keyword<br />
SZPQP ERHKQ PCRKJ VZXPU PJSZP GKRSC GCSPT QIQXL SKNQC LZPQR ZXTFN<br />
ZPRES CSPFK JNKUP QCRDG LFPRT HRSES TSEKJ IELZP Q<br />
5. Decrypt the following cipher.<br />
AOPBO GDGPG DUKLD NWCTD OALTQ NGUMT AEDKR WDLWG WCUTD MDKAZ ZCGGC<br />
TOUFG WCNZA DKGCH GGASC KCDGW CTODK MZQUT DKMTU PNOUF LUKOG AKGZC<br />
KMGWW AXCBC CKTCN ZALCV BQUGW CTZCG GCTOF DMPTC OODMK OUTLU EBDKA<br />
GDUKO UFGWC EDKAL LUTVA KLCRD GWAVC FDKDG COQOG CEAKV SCQ.<br />
Frequency count:<br />
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z<br />
14 4 25 20 4 5 23 1 0 0 18 9 7 5 14 4 5 2 2 14 14 4 11 1 0 7<br />
6. Among the techniques the British used during the Revolutionary War was<br />
a relatively simple monoalphabetic cipher. It was apparently used by Sir<br />
Henry Clinton, the commander-in-chief <strong>of</strong> His Majesty’s Forces in North<br />
America from 1778 to 1782.<br />
Decrypt the following fragment <strong>of</strong> a letter sent in this cipher.<br />
75 62 55 67 77 68 74 69 71 68 69 68 72 55 54 73 62 55 66 61<br />
73 73 55 71 73 68 66 55 63 73 62 68 74 61 62 73 63 62 51 54<br />
60 74 65 65 77 55 76 89 65 51 63 67 55 54 66 77 72 55 65 60<br />
Hint: start with a frequency count <strong>of</strong> the pairs <strong>of</strong> numbers.<br />
7. A technique for making a monoalphabetic cipher with homophones is to<br />
take a long word or phrase, number the letters in order <strong>of</strong> appearance,<br />
and then use those numbers as substitutes for the letters. Any letters that<br />
do not appear are numbered at consecutively at the end. (This method<br />
apparently originated with the Argenti’s [Kahn, 113].)<br />
In a letter on 9 Oct 1863 from 1st Lt. <strong>St</strong>ephen M. Routh, Chief Signal<br />
Officer <strong>of</strong> the District <strong>of</strong> West Louisiana, Confederate Army, to Maj. Gen.