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    Bifid Cipher

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    The document discusses the Bifid cipher, an encryption technique that uses a substitution cipher with a Polybius square and transposition. It explains how to encrypt and decrypt messages using the Bifid cipher by splitting the plaintext into blocks, mapping letters to coordinates in a grid, writing the coordinates in a table, and reading the table vertically by column to derive the plaintext. An example decrypts the ciphertext "DBAKS" to reveal the plaintext "BIF".

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    The document discusses the Bifid cipher, an encryption technique that uses a substitution cipher with a Polybius square and transposition. It explains how to encrypt and decrypt messages using the Bifid cipher by splitting the plaintext into blocks, mapping letters to coordinates in a grid, writing the coordinates in a table, and reading the table vertically by column to derive the plaintext. An example decrypts the ciphertext "DBAKS" to reveal the plaintext "BIF".

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    The document discusses the Bifid cipher, an encryption technique that uses a substitution cipher with a Polybius square and transposition. It explains how to encrypt and decrypt messages using the Bifid cipher by splitting the plaintext into blocks, mapping letters to coordinates in a grid, writing the coordinates in a table, and reading the table vertically by column to derive the plaintext. An example decrypts the ciphertext "DBAKS" to reveal the plaintext "BIF".

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    Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research.

    Dep: Network & Information Security


    Duhok Polytechnic University Subject: Computer A & O
    Technical College of Informatics – Akre Grade: 2nd Stage

    Bifid cipher
    What is the Bifid cipher?
    •The bifid cipher is an encryption using a
    substitution with a Polybius square and
    a transposition, it is described in Traité
    Élémentaire de Cryptographie by
    Felix Delastelle.
    How to encrypt using Bifid cipher?
    •Bifid encryption requires a square grid
    (or a keyword to generate the grid,
    generally 5x5or 6x6) and (optional) a
    number N which will serve as a
    period/block length (otherwise take
    N=1).
    How to recognize Bifide ciphertext?
    • The message has a low coincidence
    index around 0.04 to 0.05.

    • If the grid is 5x5 then it can have at most 25


    distinct characters.
    Example:
    • Encrypt the plain message DCODE with the grid
    (generated with the word SECRET) :

    \ 1 2 3 4 5
    1 S E C R T
    2 A B D F G
    3 H I K L M
    4 N O P Q U
    5 V W X Y Z
    Encryption first consists in splitting letters in blocks of size
    N. This text-splitting is not mandatory, but simplifies
    encryption/decryption for long texts.
    How to decrypt a Bifid cipher?
    • Bifid decryption begins identically to encryption.
    • Example: The message DBAKS has been encrypted with a period N=3
    and the grid (generated with the word MESSAGE):
    \ 1 2 3 4 5
    1 M E S A G
    2 B C D F H
    3 I K L N O
    4 P Q R T U
    5 V W X Y Z

    • The message is split into period/block of size N


    Example:
    Take the first block DBA. D=(2,3), B=(2,1), A=(1,4)
    and write it in a table:
    D 2 3
    B 2 1
    A 1 4

    To get new coordinates, read the numbers of the table vertically by


    columns.
    Example:
    • The message is decomposed in block of 3: DBA,KS
    Each letter is associated with its position in the grid as coordinates (row,
    column)
    • Example: The letters of the block D,B,A have the
    respective coordinates (2,3),(2,1),(1,4).
    Write the coordinates on 2 lines (and thus N columns, eventually except
    the last block)
    2 3 2
    1 1 4
    Then, read vertically by columns
    Example:
    • You get 2,1,3,1,2,4 or (2,1),(3,1),(2,4).

    • You find the plain letters (2,1)=B, (3,1)=I and (2,4)=F

    • The plaintext message is BIF


    Sources:
    • https://www.dcode.fr/bifid-cipher
    • Math for Liberal Studies: Encoding a Message
    Using the Bifid Cipher – YouTube
    • https://youtu.be/zE34jDx2gWE

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