CAPCryptographic

Analysis ProgramHomophonic Cipher Help Presentation

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Homophonic Cipher

This is a cipher that assigns more than one number to each letter

It randomly selects one of the assigned numbers to replace the letter in the ciphertext

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Process A four letter keyword is selected such as “next” The numbers from 1 to 100 are arranged into four groups

of 25 numbers (1-25,26-50,51-75,76-100) The numbers assigned to each letter are determined by

assigning the first letter of the key word to the first number in each group and then cyclically assigning the rest of the letters to the numbers in each group

For example:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i k l m

26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 x y z a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u v w

76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s

Note: j is left out

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Example Key

The example key from the prior slide results in four numbers assigned to each letter

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i k l m

26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a b c d

51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 x y z a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s t u v w

76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 t u v w x y z a b c d e f g h i k l m n o p q r s

For example “a” can be replaced by 14, 47, 54, or 83

The cipher randomly selects one of the four numbers each time“a” appears in the plaintext