Cryptology - Unofficial St. Mary's College of California Web Site
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106 CHAPTER 6. DECRYPTING MONOALPHABETIC CIPHERS<br />
12. Frequency analysis was probably first invented by the Arabs. Decrypt the<br />
following message. The ideas are due to Ibn ad-Duraihim as paraphrased<br />
by Qalqashandi in 1412’s Subh al-a sha<br />
EJJLF GZPGE BAABO HJPPT OXJHA UOBVT BQAER ZQAGB XBHHD NBDQI PJXCD<br />
OBAGZ HFZAG AGBCD AABOQ JUEBA ABOUO BVTBQ PRCOB MZJTH ERXBQ AZJQB<br />
IFGBQ RJTHB BAGDA JQBEB AABOJ PPTOH ZQAGB XBHHD NBXJO BJUAB OQAGD<br />
QAGBO BHAAG BQDHH TXBAG DAZAZ HDEZU AGBQD HHTXB AGDAA GBQBY AXJHA<br />
UOBVT BQAZH EDXAG BDPPT ODPRJ URJTO PJQSB PATOB HGJTE IWBPJ QUZOX<br />
BIWRA GBUDP AZQDX DSJOZ ARJUP JQABY AHEDX UJEEJ FHDEZ U<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 />
40 45 3 20 13 4 19 21 4 24 0 1 1 2 19 15 20 8 2 13 12 3 2 13 2 15<br />
13. The aftermath <strong>of</strong> the election <strong>of</strong> 1876 provides us with a number <strong>of</strong> interesting<br />
ciphertexts [Elements and Secret 1876].<br />
Jacksonville, Nov. 16 (1876)<br />
Geo. F. Raney, Tallahassee:<br />
pp yy em ns ny yy pi ma sh ns yy ss it ep aa en<br />
sh ns pe ns sh ns mm pi yy sn pp ye aa pi ei ss ye<br />
sh ai ns ss pe ei yy sh ny ns ss ye pi aa ny it ns sh<br />
yy sp yy pi ns yy ss it em ei pi mm ei ss ei yy ei ss<br />
it ei ep yy pe ei aa ss im aa ye sp ns yy ia<br />
ns ss ei ss mm pp ns pi ns sn pi ns im im yy it em yy<br />
ss pe yy mm ns yy ss it sp yy pe ep pp ma aa yy pi it<br />
L’Engle goes up to-morrow. (signed) Daniel<br />
In this cipher pairs <strong>of</strong> letters were used as substitutes for individual letters.<br />
The quote above highlights this by seperating the pairs. (In the original<br />
letter this was not the case, and the first progress towards decyphering<br />
the letter was realizing the double-letter nature <strong>of</strong> the cipher.)<br />
Given this, and the hint that neither e nor t is the most common letter,<br />
can you decrypt it<br />
14. Consider the following telegram [Hassard and Secret 1876].<br />
J. J. DANIEL, Jacsonville, Fla.:<br />
TALLAHASSEE, Mov. 19, 1876<br />
84 55 89 31 93 27 66 89 27 20 42 66 34 55<br />
33 93 20 34 84 55 55 39 93 42 55 33 93 48 44<br />
55 52 27 66 33 20 20 55 31 31 66 42 27 82 96 96<br />
93 20 82 66 48 93 52 27 93 44 93 34 82 31 31 27