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7.10. EXERCISES 131<br />

22. (a) Use Kasiski’s method to decrypt the message:<br />

CT OSB UHGI TP IPEWF H CEWIL NSTTLE FJNVX XTYLS FWKKHI BJLSI SQ<br />

VOI BKSM XMKUL SK NVPONPN GSW OL IEAG NPSI HYJISFZ CYY NPUXQG<br />

TPRJA VXMSI AP EHVPPR TH WPPNEL UVZUA MMYVSF KNTS ZSZ UAJPQ<br />

DLMMJXL JR RA PORTELOGJ CSULTWNI XMKUHW XGLN ELCPOWY OL ULJTL<br />

BVJ TLBWTPZ XLD K ZISZNK OSY DL RYJUAJSJF ZIEQN ASC YQ LNFFTR<br />

CIKQYF XMG TBWY KU TSRG VVXBCYE FTWUE Z JUZFP HTLXW BKSM RTV<br />

IF WHTBUMSKGFH XQ ZIEWRSZ EX RHTWJPNFVX VOFVJ CYF XMQZF AMQ<br />

DJPQ NLU CTW ROSB OF NSAGTFRYU MPV YJL QSQKJF QFA ABQUGY XM YJ<br />

FPYW EVSVJUWPRIGUDI GWA MEYGY PR BJLO LZG HOH HTF IEAG KJII<br />

FVXR BKSM PJV FPY PPVX EQN<br />

(b) This message appears in Parker Hitt’s book [Hitt, page 59]. He claims<br />

it appeared in the “personals” column <strong>of</strong> a London newspaper, and<br />

after breaking hit he looked back at the column from the day before<br />

and found the message “M.B. Will deposit £27 14s 5d tomorrow.”<br />

How are the messages related<br />

23. Trithemius’ tabula recta is used in three different ways to produce the<br />

Vigenère Cipher, Beaufort Cipher and their Variant Cipher.<br />

In the chart below we encipher money with SEND using a Vigenère cipher<br />

as usual. Next to it, the letters are converted to their equivalent numbers.<br />

plaintext m o n e y plain numbers 13 15 14 5 25<br />

key S E N D S key numbers 18 4 13 3 18<br />

ciphertext E S A H Q cipher numbers 31≡5 19 27≡1 8 43≡17<br />

(a) Using P , C and K to represent the plaintext, ciphertext and key,<br />

respectively, how, mathematically, do P and K determine C That<br />

is, give an equation C =, where is some combination <strong>of</strong> P<br />

and K. This gives a mathematical formulation <strong>of</strong> enciphering with<br />

Vigenère.<br />

(b) Find the similar formula for deciphering a Vigenère cipher.<br />

(c) Create similar charts, using the same plaintext and key, but this time<br />

using a Beaufort Cipher. Use your charts to find the mathematical<br />

formulation <strong>of</strong> enciphering with the Beaufort.<br />

(d) Find the similar formula for deciphering a Beaufort cipher.<br />

(e) Repeat parts (c) and (d) but this time using a Variant Cipher.<br />

(f) What does this problem tell us about the possibility for other polyalphabetic<br />

ciphers

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