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Cracking Codes with Python
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Cracking Codes with Python

by Al Sweigart
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
416 pages
10h 40m
English
No Starch Press
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7ENCRYPTING WITH THE TRANSPOSITION CIPHER

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”—Edward Snowden, 2015

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The Caesar cipher isn’t secure; it doesn’t take much for a computer to brute-force through all 66 possible keys. The transposition cipher, on the other hand, is more difficult to brute-force because the number of possible keys depends on the message’s length. There are many different types of transposition ciphers, including the rail fence cipher, route cipher, Myszkowski transposition cipher, and disrupted ...

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