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  2. Cryptanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Cryptanalysis has coevolved together with cryptography, and the contest can be traced through the history of cryptography—new ciphers being designed to replace old broken designs, and new cryptanalytic techniques invented to crack the improved schemes. In practice, they are viewed as two sides of the same coin: secure cryptography requires ...

  3. Cryptography - Wikipedia

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    Cryptography, or cryptology (from Ancient Greek: κρυπτός, romanized: kryptós "hidden, secret"; and γράφειν graphein, "to write", or -λογία-logia, "study", respectively [1]), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behavior. [2]

  4. Linear cryptanalysis - Wikipedia

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    In cryptography, linear cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis based on finding affine approximations to the action of a cipher. Attacks have been developed for block ciphers and stream ciphers. Linear cryptanalysis is one of the two most widely used attacks on block ciphers; the other being differential cryptanalysis.

  5. Cryptanalysis of the Enigma - Wikipedia

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    Decrypting enciphered messages involves three stages, defined somewhat differently in that era than in modern cryptography. [7] First, there is the identification of the system in use, in this case Enigma; second, breaking the system by establishing exactly how encryption takes place, and third, solving , which involves finding the way that the ...

  6. Confusion and diffusion - Wikipedia

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    In cryptography, confusion and diffusion are two properties of a secure cipher identified by Claude Shannon in his 1945 classified report A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography. [1] These properties, when present, work together to thwart the application of statistics, and other methods of cryptanalysis.

  7. History of cryptography - Wikipedia

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    The development of cryptography has been paralleled by the development of cryptanalysis — the "breaking" of codes and ciphers. The discovery and application, early on, of frequency analysis to the reading of encrypted communications has, on occasion, altered the course of history.

  8. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    Topics in cryptography; Zipf's law; A Void, a novel by Georges Perec. The original French text is written without the letter e, as is the English translation. The Spanish version contains no a. Gadsby (novel), a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright. The novel is written as a lipogram, which does not include words that contain the letter E.

  9. Differential cryptanalysis - Wikipedia

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    Differential cryptanalysis is a general form of cryptanalysis applicable primarily to block ciphers, but also to stream ciphers and cryptographic hash functions. In the broadest sense, it is the study of how differences in information input can affect the resultant difference at the output.