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Elementary Cryptanalysis

Elementary Cryptanalysis

by Helen Fouché Gaines

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Author
Gaines, Helen Fouché, 1888-1940
Title
Elementary cryptanalysis
Original Publication
Boston: American Photographic Publishing Co., 1939.
Language
English
LoC Class
Z: Bibliography, Library science
Subject
Ciphers
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 75074
Release Date
January 9, 2025
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.ELEMENTARY CRYPTANALYSIS
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.CHAPTER I General Information
  5. 5.CHAPTER II Concealment Devices
  6. 6.CHAPTER III Transposition Types
  7. 7.CHAPTER IV Geometrical Types — The Nihilist Transposition
  8. 8.CHAPTER V Geometrical Types — The Turning Grille
  9. 9.CHAPTER VI Irregular Types — Columnar Transposition
  10. 10.CHAPTER VII General Methods — Multiple Anagramming, Etc.
  11. 11.CHAPTER VIII Substitution Types
  12. 12.CHAPTER IX Simple Substitution — Fundamentals
  13. 13.CHAPTER X The Consonant-Line Short Cut
  14. 14.CHAPTER XI Simple Substitution with Complexities
  15. 15.CHAPTER XII Multiple-Alphabet Ciphers — The Vigenère
  16. 16.CHAPTER XIII The Gronsfeld, Porta, and Beaufort Ciphers
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIV The Kasiski Method for Periodic Ciphers
  18. 18.CHAPTER XV Miscellaneous Phases of Vigenère Decryptment
  19. 19.CHAPTER XVI Auto-Encipherment
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVII Some Periodic Number-Ciphers
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVIII Periodic Ciphers with Mixed Alphabets
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIX Polyalphabetical Encipherment Applied by Groups
  23. 23.CHAPTER XX Vigenère with Key-Progression
  24. 24.CHAPTER XXI Polygram Substitution — The Playfair Cipher
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXII Highlights of Fractional Substitution
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXIII Investigating the Unknown Cipher
  27. 27.APPENDIX
  28. 28.BIBLIOGRAPHY By W. D. Witt — More or Less Elementary Works — Advanced Works — Miscellaneous (Primarily descriptive of systems, historical, special essays, etc., usually with little on cryptanalysis.) — THE COMMONEST ENGLISH WORDS — ENGLISH TRIGRAMS — ENGLISH DIGRAMS
  29. 29.INDEX
  30. 30.Transcriber's Note

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