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Decipherment of Substitution Cipher using Enhanced Probability Distribution

by Pratap Reddy L, Vishnu Vardhan B, Bhadri Raju MSVS, Apparao Naidu G
International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 5 - Number 8
Year of Publication: 2010
Authors: Pratap Reddy L, Vishnu Vardhan B, Bhadri Raju MSVS, Apparao Naidu G
10.5120/958-1335

Pratap Reddy L, Vishnu Vardhan B, Bhadri Raju MSVS, Apparao Naidu G . Decipherment of Substitution Cipher using Enhanced Probability Distribution. International Journal of Computer Applications. 5, 8 ( August 2010), 34-40. DOI=10.5120/958-1335

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author = { Pratap Reddy L, Vishnu Vardhan B, Bhadri Raju MSVS, Apparao Naidu G },
title = { Decipherment of Substitution Cipher using Enhanced Probability Distribution },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { August 2010 },
volume = { 5 },
number = { 8 },
month = { August },
year = { 2010 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 34-40 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume5/number8/958-1335/ },
doi = { 10.5120/958-1335 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%P 34-40
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Information theoretic approach for decipherment problems is the recent trend in cryptanalysis. The behavioral transformation of message units is addressed upto certain extent in the encryption process. However the amount of confusion and diffusion in terms of statistical distribution parameters between message and cipher text is a point of interest for cryptanalyst. In the present work we addressed this issue with the help of enhanced probability distribution function. The basic units of any message text are observed to be heuristic in nature depending on the sample. Averaging function is adopted while evaluating the enhanced probabilities of message units. The retrieved efficiency of cipher text only attack on samples of English, Hindi Telugu, Kannada is presented in this paper.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Cryptanalysis probability distribution Conditional probability distribution Enhanced probability distribution