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List <strong>of</strong> Figures<br />

1.1 Saint Cyr Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

1.2 Decrypting a Caesar cipher by running down the alphabet . . . . 15<br />

1.3 Letter Frequency, in percent. From Sinkov. . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.4 English Letter Frequency Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

1.5 Letter Frequency Charts for Several Languages . . . . . . . . . . 18<br />

2.1 Alice, Bob and Eve: the three names <strong>of</strong> Cryptography . . . . . . 30<br />

3.1 The <strong>St</strong>andard Translation <strong>of</strong> Letters into Numbers . . . . . . . . 31<br />

3.2 Enciphering/Deciphering pairs modulo 26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43<br />

5.1 Letter Frequencies – Anywhere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

5.2 Letter Frequencies – Initial Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />

5.3 Letter Frequencies – Final Letters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

5.4 Characteristics <strong>of</strong> etaoinshr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

5.5 Most Common Short Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78<br />

5.6 The 100 Most Common Words in English . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79<br />

6.1 Some Basic Letter Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91<br />

6.2 Digraph Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93<br />

6.3 Digraph Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96<br />

6.4 Letter Behaviors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />

7.1 Trithemius’ tabula recta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112<br />

7.2 Beaufort’s Tableaux . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116<br />

7.3 A Kasiski Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123<br />

8.1 Frequency Counts: Same quote, different keylengths. . . . . . . . 138<br />

8.2 Larrabee’s Cipher Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163<br />

9.1 A Simple Digraphic Substitution Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169<br />

9.2 A More Complicated Digraphic Substitution Chart . . . . . . . . 170<br />

9.3 18 Most Frequent Bigrams, in percent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171<br />

9.4 Repetitions in the unknown cipher. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175<br />

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