Analysis of four historical ciphers against known plaintext frequency statistical attack

• Main Authors: Wen, Chuah Chai, Samylingam, Vivegan A/L, Darmawan, Irfan, Palaniappan, P.Siva Shamala A/P, Mohd. Foozy, Cik Feresa, Ramli, Sofia Najwa, Alawatugoda, Janaka
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit UTHM 2018
• Subjects: T58.5-58.64 Information technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3677/1/AJ%202018%20%28718%29%20Analysis%20of%20four%20historical%20ciphers%20against%20known%20plaintext%20frequency%20statistical%20attack.pdf; http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3677/

The need of keeping information securely began thousands of years. The practice to keep the information securely is by scrambling the message into unreadable form namely ciphertext. This process is called encryption. Decryption is the reverse process of encryption. For the past, historical ciphers a...