Dr.

Selva Rani B

Classical Encryption Techniques

Part - I
 Classical Techniques
Substitution Transposition
• Caesar Cipher • Rail fence Cipher
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• Monoalphabetic Cipher • Scytale Cipher

• Playfair Cipher • Route cipher
• Hill Cipher • Columnar
• Polyalphabetic Cipher Transposition
• Double Transposition
 Rail fence Cipher
• Permutation of the plaintext characters
• Plaintext is written down as a sequence of
diagonals
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• Read off as a sequence of rows

• Plaintext : weareattacked R = 2
W A E T A K D
E R A T C E

• Ciphertext : waetakd | eratce = 13/2 = 7+6

W A E T A K D
E R A T C E
 Rail fence Cipher
• Plaintext : weareunderattack
W E E T
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E U R A
A N A C
R D T K

• Ciphertext : weet | eura | anac | rdtk R = 4 16/4=4

W e e t
e u r A
 Columnar Transposition
Encryption
• Plaintext : ATTACK POSTPONEDTONIGHT TEN = 25
• Key : RIVER = 5
R I V E R
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3 2 5 1 4
A T T A C
K P O S T
P O N E D
T O N I G
H T T E N
Ciphertext : ASEIETPOOTAKPTHCTDGNTONNT
 Columnar Transposition
Decryption
• Ciphertext : ASEIE | TPOOT | AKPTH | CTDGN | TONNT

R I V E R
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A
S
E
I
E
 Columnar Transposition
Decryption
• Ciphertext : ASEIE | TPOOT | AKPTH | CTDGN | TONNT

R I V E R
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3 2 5 1 4
T A
P S
O E
O I
T E
 Columnar Transposition
Decryption
• Ciphertext : ASEIE | TPOOT | AKPTH | CTDGN | TONNT

R I V E R
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A T A
K P S
P O E
T O I
H T E
 Columnar Transposition
Decryption
• Ciphertext : ASEIE | TPOOT | AKPTH | CTDGN | TONNT

R I V E R
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3 2 5 1 4
A T A C
K P S T
P O E D
T O I G
H T E N
 Columnar Transposition
Decryption
• Ciphertext : ASEIE | TPOOT | AKPTH | CTDGN | TONNT

R I V E R
Dr. Selva Rani B

3 2 5 1 4
A T T A C
K P O S T
P O N E D
T O N I G
H T T E N

• Recovered Plaintext : ATTACKPOSTPONEDTONIGHTTEN