CPE 645 / CS 685
Applied Cryptography

Breaking Playfair

Single letters are flat by design, so count the pairs the cipher actually operates on.

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Objectives
  • Rank ciphertext digraphs and compare them with the English table.

  • Name the structure Playfair leaves in its output beyond digraph frequency.

  • Explain why moving from 26 symbols to 676 buys text, not security.


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