Following up the second week task for the excellent Cryptography course by Prof. Jonathan Katz at Coursera, and took the second programming assignment. This time it is about breaking the one-time pad encryption when the code was reused, and more than one ciphertext is intercepted. Again, the suggested approach required too much manual work, and […]

I have signed up for the excellent Cryptography course by Prof. Jonathan Katz at Coursera, and took the first programming assignment which was about breaking the Vigenere cipher. The instructor explained one of the ways to do it, and recommended to rely on letter distribution in English. But while the suggested approach was interesting, I […]