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    Keyword Cipher

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    A keyword cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher. It uses a keyword to determine the letter mapping from plain text to ciphertext. To generate the cipher alphabet, repeated letters are removed from the keyword and it is matched with letters A-Z. The remaining letters are then added in alphabetical order to complete the cipher alphabet, excluding letters already in the keyword. The message is then encrypted by substituting each plain text letter with the corresponding letter from the cipher alphabet.

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    A keyword cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher. It uses a keyword to determine the letter mapping from plain text to ciphertext. To generate the cipher alphabet, repeated letters are removed from the keyword and it is matched with letters A-Z. The remaining letters are then added in alphabetical order to complete the cipher alphabet, excluding letters already in the keyword. The message is then encrypted by substituting each plain text letter with the corresponding letter from the cipher alphabet.

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    A keyword cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher. It uses a keyword to determine the letter mapping from plain text to ciphertext. To generate the cipher alphabet, repeated letters are removed from the keyword and it is matched with letters A-Z. The remaining letters are then added in alphabetical order to complete the cipher alphabet, excluding letters already in the keyword. The message is then encrypted by substituting each plain text letter with the corresponding letter from the cipher alphabet.

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    Keyword Cipher

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    A keyword cipher is a type of monoalphabetic substitution cipher. It uses a keyword to determine the letter mapping from plain text to ciphertext. To generate the cipher alphabet, repeated letters are removed from the keyword and it is matched with letters A-Z. The remaining letters are then added in alphabetical order to complete the cipher alphabet, excluding letters already in the keyword. The message is then encrypted by substituting each plain text letter with the corresponding letter from the cipher alphabet.

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    Keyword Cipher

    A keyword cipher is basically a form of monoalphabetic substitution. A keyword is used


    to determine the letter mapping from plain to ciphertext. First, the repeated letters in the
    keyword are removed, then the cipher alphabet is generated. For generating cipher
    alphabet keyword is matched with A, B, C etc., until all the letters of the keywords are
    used up after which the standard alphabetical letters are used in order, excluding those
    which are already in the key.

    Encryption:
    The first line of input contains the keyword which you wish to enter. The second line of
    input contains the string which you have to encrypt.
    Plaintext: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
    Encrypted: K R Y P T O S A B C D E F G H I J L M N Q U V W X Z
    With KRYPTOS as the keyword, all As become Ks, all Bs becoming Rs, and so on.
    Encrypting the message “knowledge is power” using the keyword “Kryptos”:
    Encrypting the message: Knowledge is Power
    Encoded message: IlmWjbaEb GQ NmWbp

    Example2

    Input :
    Keyword : secret
    Message : Zombie Here
    Output :
    Ciphered String : ZLJEFT DTOT
    Take the first example, we used "secret" keyword there.
    Plain Text : A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
    When "secret" keyword is used, the new encrypting text becomes :
    Encrypting : S E C R T A B D F G H I J K L M N O P Q U V W X Y Z
    This means 'A' means 'S', 'B' means 'E' and 'C' means 'C' and so on.
    Lets encode the given message "Zombie Here"
    ZOMBIE HERE becomes ZLJEFT DTO
    Introduction

    Keyword Cipher is another method of encrypting alphabetic text. It is a type of


    monoalphabetic substitution cipher. Monoalphabetic means an alphabet in
    plain text is mapped to one alphabet in the ciphertext. For example, if the plain
    text contains multiple occurrences of ‘A’ then all occurrences of ‘A’ are
    substituted by the same alphabet in the ciphertext.

    Encryption

    Suppose the plain text is

    “HELLO WORLD”
    Next, we have to choose a keyword. The keyword should not have any
    repeated alphabets. Let the keyword be

    “DRAGON”
    Next, we map each alphabet in plain text to the alphabet in the ciphertext. The
    starting N alphabets of plain text are mapped to the alphabet of the keyword
    where N is the length of the keyword.

    To fill the rest of the alphabets in the ciphertext, we use the remaining
    alphabets in chronological order. We skip over those alphabets that are
    already present in the ciphertext. See the figure shown below

    We use the above mapping to encrypt the plain text.

    Plain Text: “HELLO WORLD”


    Keyword: “DRAGON”
    Cipher Text: “COIIL WLQIG”
    Decryption

    Decryption is very simple. We map plaintext alphabets to ciphertext alphabets


    using the keyword then use the reverse mapping to convert the ciphertext to
    plaintext

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