Thread: Affine Cipher Encryption

Hi!

Anyone any good with codebreaking?....

Let plaintext be written in the alphabet a, b, . . . , y, z and let ciphertext be
written in the alphabet A, B, . . . , Y, Z. Both alphabets have N = 26 letters.
Consider the affine cipher on digraphs with encryption

E( ) = 9 + 43mod676:

Encipher the plaintext TRUTHS.

In this question I want to use standard numbering, so A=0, B=1..... Z=25

i would have helped u if encryption is of the form (ax+b)modc

but here inclusion of 9 makes it helpless for me

i can may be help u if u tell me whats use of 9 here

between , see this for some help: http://www.math.cornell.edu/~kozdron...uts/affine.pdf

i think that link is only useful for the simple version of the affine cipher.... thanks anyway

any other ideas anyone?

Is supposed to be a number or a variable?

represents the letter that is to be ciphered or deciphered

This is somewhat unusual notation. I've seen people use a letter to denote this, say, .

In any case, you need to represent your digraphs numerically. To do this, you first convert each letter to a number. For the digraph TR, we have and . Then, we write this as a number base 26: . Then pass it through : . Then, .

In summary, the plaintext TR is encrypted into WO. Try the rest for yourself.

i tried the others for myself and got UT~GG and HS~SX.... sound right?