2012年11月20日火曜日

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Caesar Cipher can be generalized in such way that one substitutes wach letter with another.
This kind of ciphers are called substitution cipher.


But these kind of ciphers were broken, by well trained code breakers.
In fact, they use a method called frequency analysis.

So, they have to find a new cipher algorithm to keep the security of sending messages. 

The breakthrough was achieved by a French diplomat, Blaise de Vigenere, in 16th. Century.
The algorithm used the Caesar Ciphers (not only one, but all possible Caesar ciphers).
The significant idea is to change the Caesar Ciphers according to a key, whichi is given by a sequence of alphabets.