vigenere.py
defencrypt(plaintext, key): |
key_length=len(key) |
key_as_int= [ord(i) foriinkey] |
plaintext_int= [ord(i) foriinplaintext] |
ciphertext=' |
foriinrange(len(plaintext_int)): |
value= (plaintext_int[i] +key_as_int[i%key_length]) %26 |
ciphertext+=chr(value+65) |
returnciphertext |
defdecrypt(ciphertext, key): |
key_length=len(key) |
key_as_int= [ord(i) foriinkey] |
ciphertext_int= [ord(i) foriinciphertext] |
plaintext=' |
foriinrange(len(ciphertext_int)): |
value= (ciphertext_int[i] -key_as_int[i%key_length]) %26 |
plaintext+=chr(value+65) |
returnplaintext |
The simple substitution cipher is effectively invulnerable to a brute-force attack. Even if your computer could try out a trillion keys every second, it would still take twelve million years for it to try out every key. The Simple Substitution Cipher with Paper and Pencil. In this article, we will talk about ciphers, to be more specific substitution cipher in Python. Mainly in cryptography, the ciphertext is used to encrypt the plain text.According to a fixed system, the “units” may be single letters, triplets of letters, pairs of letters, mixtures of the above, etc. Simple Substitution Cipher. Simple substitution cipher is the most commonly used cipher and includes an algorithm of substituting every plain text character for every cipher text character. In this process, alphabets are jumbled in comparison with Caesar cipher algorithm. Keys for a simple substitution cipher usually consists of 26 letters. Keyword Cipher The Keyword cipher is identical to the Caesar Cipher with the exception that the substitution alphabet used can be represented with a keyword. To create a substitution alphabet from a keyword, you first write down the alphabet. Sep 24, 2019 Simple Vigenere Cipher written in Python 3.5. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
commented Jan 3, 2018
I think there are limitations here with lower case and capital letters. You'd need to check for .lower() , and also simply pass the character through if it doesn't match A-Z.I wrote one that handles all default ASCII characters (95): For example: |
commented Jan 3, 2018 • edited
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commented Mar 6, 2018
@flipperbw , I'm trying to make a similar program. Would you mind reposting your code with comments; I'm having a bit of a hard time following it. Thanks. |
commented May 1, 2018
I implemented this some years ago, along with a tabula recta generator so you can do it by hand (for fun!) |
commented Jan 10, 2020
![Substitution cipher Substitution cipher](/uploads/1/2/6/0/126059811/466452105.png)
Hello! in your first code (the one that starts like: def vig(txt=', key=', typ='d'): if not txt: print 'Needs text') there is a thing called 'ret_text' what does it do? I am trying to get inputs and then encode/decode it but I am not sure how I should do that, if only I knew what ret_text does. Can you specify it? Thanks! |
commented Jan 10, 2020
It's just the return text, that one by one figures out the proper character to return given the key. It's been a while since I wrote this snippet but if it can find a match of an ascii character, itll convert that, else it will leave it alone. |
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Simple substitution cipher is the most commonly used cipher and includes an algorithm of substituting every plain text character for every cipher text character. In this process, alphabets are jumbled in comparison with Caesar cipher algorithm.
Example
Keys for a simple substitution cipher usually consists of 26 letters. An example key is −
Simple Substitution Cipher
An example encryption using the above key is−
The following code shows a program to implement simple substitution cipher −
Output
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Simple Substitution Cipher Generate Key Python Number
You can observe the following output when you implement the code given above −