CORE 139 Methods and Issues in Cryptology Spring 2004

Polyalphabetic Alignment Tool

Enter a ciphertext in each of the "ciphertext" boxes and click "align". The output will show the offset of the start of the second ciphertext with respect to the first (a negative number means the second ciphertext starts to the left of the first) and the number of columns with identical letters resulting from that alignment. Look for a number which is significantly higher than all of the others.

ciphertext #1:
ciphertext #2:
Test possible alignments of the two ciphertexts.
alignment stats:


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