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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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8DECRYPTING WITH THE TRANSPOSITION CIPHER

“Weakening encryption or creating backdoors to encrypted devices and data for use by the good guys would actually create vulnerabilities to be exploited by the bad guys.”—Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, 2015

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Unlike the Caesar cipher, the decryption process for the transposition cipher is different from the encryption process. In this chapter, you’ll create a separate program named transpositionDecrypt.py to handle decryption.

How to Decrypt ...

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ISBN: 9781492067498