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  Classical cipher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In cryptography, a classical cipher is a type of cipher used historically but which now have fallen, for the most part, into disuse.
In a substitution cipher, letters (or groups of letters) are systematically replaced throughout the message for other letters (or groups of letters).
In a transposition cipher, the letters themselves are kept unchanged, but rather their order within the message is scrambled according to some well-defined scheme.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Classical_cipher   (214 words)

  
 Substitution cipher
The simple substitution cipher is one in which each plaintext character is simply replaced by a corresponding one from a cipher alphabet.
The cipher alphabet may be shifted or reversed (creating the Caesar cipher and atbash ciphers, respectively) or scrambled, in which case it is called a "mixed alphabet" or "deranged alphabet".
In the Vigenère cipher, the first row of the tableau is filled out with a copy of the plaintext alphabet, and successive rows are simply shifted one place to the left.
starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/s/su/substitution_cipher.html   (2350 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Two-square cipher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
When only the ciphertext is known, brute force cryptanalysis of the cipher involves searching through the key space for matches between the frequency of occurrence of digrams (pairs of letters) and the known frequency of occurrence of digrams in the assumed language of the original message.
In classical cryptography, the bifid cipher is a cipher which combines the Polybius square with transposition, and uses fractionation to achieve diffusion.
In classical cryptography, the trifid cipher is a cipher invented around 1901 by Felix Delastelle, which extends the concept of the bifid cipher to a third dimension, allowing each symbol to be fractionated into 3 elements instead of two.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Two_square-cipher   (1734 words)

  
 Baphomet:The Atbash Cipher Theory | The Knights Templar | templarhistory.com
In order to understand the Atbash Cipher theory, as it relates to the Baphomet mythos, it is first important to examine the origins of the code.
In the case of the Atbash cipher, the first letter of the alphabet is substituted for the last, the second for the second last and so on.
For example applying the Atbash cipher to the word "hagu," he got the Hebrew word, "tsaraph," which means, "test." The "hagu" passages are important for they deal with "The Teacher of Righteousness," which some scholars believe to have been Jesus.
www.templarhistory.com /atbash.html   (452 words)

  
 Atbash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atbash is a simple substitution cipher for the Hebrew alphabet.
It consists of substituting aleph (the first letter) for tav (the last), beth (the second) for shin (one before last), and so on, reversing the alphabet.
Atbash can also be used to mean the same thing in any other alphabet as well.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Atbash_cipher   (139 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Substitution cipher
By contrast, in a substitution cipher, the units of the plaintext are retained in the same sequence in the ciphertext, but the units themselves are altered.
A monoalphabetic cipher uses fixed substitution over the entire message, whereas a polyalphabetic cipher uses a number of substitutions at different times in the message—such as with homophones, where a unit from the plaintext is mapped to one of several possibilities in the ciphertext.
The cipher alphabet may be shifted or reversed (creating the Caesar and Atbash ciphers, respectively) or scrambled in a more complex fashion, in which case it is called a mixed alphabet or deranged alphabet.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Substitution_alphabet   (2772 words)

  
 Substitution cipher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The simple substitution cipher is one in which each plaintext character issimply replaced by a corresponding one from a cipher alphabet.
In the Vigenère cipher, the first row of the tableau is filledout with a copy of the plaintext alphabet, and successive rows are simply shifted one place to the left.
Modern stream ciphers can also be seen, from a sufficiently abstractperspective, to be a form of polyalphabetic cipher in which all the effort has gone into making the keystream as long andunpredictable as possible.
www.therfcc.org /substitution-cipher-72540.html   (2106 words)

  
 Satanic Reds
In the case of the Atbash cipher, the first letter of the alphabet is substituted for the last, the second for the second last and so on." I.e., for us in English the letter A becomes "Z", the letter "B" becomes "Y", the letter C becomes X, and so on.
Schonfield decided to apply the Atbash cipher which he was convinced the Templars were aware of, to the word Baphomet.If one writes the word Baphomet in Hebrew and remember Hebrew letters [not shown here but are placed appropriately on the image] read from right to left, the result is shown here.
With the Atbash Cipher: Alef Yud Pe Vav Shin = SOPHIA
www.geocities.com /satanicreds/rtl-images.html   (662 words)

  
 The Atbash Cipher: Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
In the mid 1980’s a Dead Sea Scrolls researcher, Dr. Hugh Schonfield, got a hunch to apply a cipher known to scholars as the Atbash Cipher to an unknown Hebrew word, ‘hagu’.
To his surprise and amazement, the use of the cipher revealed another word, ‘tsaraph’, which means ‘test’.
The Essenes were most probably the first users of the Atbash Cipher, which led Schonfield to believe the knowledge of the cipher could have passed to the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
www.freewebs.com /atbash_cipher/intro.htm   (248 words)

  
 Fred Cohen & Associates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
We begin with a classification scheme for ciphers given by Gary Knight [Knight78] in the first of a series of articles which posed ciphers to the reader, and after a given period of time demonstrated reader solutions along with explanations of how they solved the ciphers.
The 'wheel cipher' was invented by Thomas Jefferson around 1795, and although he never did very much with it, a very similar system was still in use by the US navy only a few years ago.
The rotor is thus a "progressive key polyalphabetic substitution cipher with a mixed alphabet and a period of 26".
all.net /books/ip/Chap2-1.html   (5872 words)

  
 Paper Outline – Encryption
He invented a steganographic cipher in which each letter was represented as a word taken from a succession of columns.
He classified ciphers as transposition, substitution and symbol substitution (use of a strange alphabet).
A block cipher accepts a predefined quantity, or space, to be encrypted.
cec.wustl.edu /~sam1/Encryption.htm   (4274 words)

  
 Cryptography:Atbash cipher - Research Area   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Atbash is an ancient encryption system created in the Middle East.
The Atbash cipher is a simple substitution cipher that relies on transposing all the letters in the alphabet such that the resulting alphabet is backwards.
As one can see, and as mentioned previously, the Atbash cipher offers no security once the cipher method is found.
www.researcharea.org /books/Cryptography:Atbash_cipher   (130 words)

  
 Lab 9: JavaScript Strings and Encryption
Both the Atbash and Caesar ciphers are examples of substitution ciphers, codes in which one letter of the alphabet is substituted for another.
Although both of these ciphers were effective at their time (when very few people could read at all), their simple patterns of encoding letters seem pretty obvious today.
The weakness of substitution ciphers is that they always map the same letter of the alphabet to the same key letter.
www.dickinson.edu /~braught/courses/cs131s04/Spring2004/Labs/Lab09.html   (1549 words)

  
 The Atbash system of Magick revealed in the Tarot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Once the Atbash code is seen not as a cipher tool, but a magical system in its own right, new possibilities present themselves.
My new book, Tarot and the Magus, is structured upon the Atbash code, which resulted in the spontaneous appearance of the Spirits of Liber 231 and the Goetia, who guided me to look afresh at the writings of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley.
At the fundamental roots of the Atbash code, and structured within Tarot, is the sex magickal system of the Golden Dawn and of the OTO.
www.supertarot.co.uk /cipher/magic.htm   (1463 words)

  
 The Atbash Cipher: Annotated Bibliography
Visual diagrams of the Atbash Cipher the Hebrew alphabet put in the way of the cipher, explanation and history of the cipher, and various pentagram images of the Hebrew words for ‘Baphomet’ and its decoded counterpart.
This website defined the Atbash Cipher as a ‘Kabalistic alphabet cipher’ and confirmed what many sources had said the cipher was used by the Knights Templar to hide key terms from unwanted eyes and to prevent potential prosecution by the Church.
Briefly describes the ingenuity of the Templars using the Atbash Cipher to encrypt certain words, then moves on to show how the discovery of Baphomet/Sophia was so interesting.
www.freewebs.com /atbash_cipher/annotatbib.htm   (637 words)

  
 cipher one pad time Index - Computer-Technology-Find   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
The one time pad is a cipher where the key length and the text length are the same.
A one-time pad, sometimes called the Vernam cipher, uses a string of bits that is generated completely at random.
cipher stent cipher stream cipher strength cipher substitution cipher symmetric cipher system cipher text cipher transposition
www.computer-technology-find.com /Cipher/cipher-one-pad-time.html   (612 words)

  
 hollandf.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
In this document is included a brief history of cryptography, touching on some highlights, but not many as there are far too many different methods that have been developed to explain them in a timely manner.
Following this, there will be examples of matrix applications in the field, mainly the general cipher we discussed in class.
Then will be discussed a few of the main applications of cryptography, followed by a brief summary of the project, as there was no main goal except to give an overview of the subject.
www.mathsci.appstate.edu /~sjg/class/2240/finals04/hollandf.html   (585 words)

  
 Substitution cipher
In practice, typically about 50 letters are needed, although some messages can be broken with fewer if particular unusual patterns are found.
In practice, Vigenère keys were often phrases several words long.
In addition, block ciphers often include smaller substitution tables called S-boxes.
www.starrepublic.org /encyclopedia/wikipedia/s/su/substitution_cipher.html   (2350 words)

  
 mimsf.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Between 600 and 500 BC, a reversed alphabet substitution cipher system was used to encode the book of Jeremiah, this system became known as the ATBASH.
These codes are similar to ATBASH except that instead of substituting with a reversed alphabet the substitution was a shifted alphabet.
Step 5: Now, all the cipher text needs to be put into a string of numbers and converted back to its alphabetical counterpart.
www.mathsci.appstate.edu /~sjg/class/2240/finals04/mimsf.html   (1866 words)

  
 History of Cryptography from CryptoBuddy.com
A similar cipher was used during the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots to communicate with conspirators to plan the assassination of Queen Elizabeth I. Ultimately the messages were intercepted and the code broken, leading to the execution of all the plotters.
The cipher was originally introduced by Chaude Shannon, a pioneer of the information theory, in the 1940s.
Both of these ciphers are now considered less secure since methods of breaking them have been found, and a new cipher is under development as a replacement.
www.cryptostick.com /cryptographyhistory.php   (768 words)

  
 OccultForums.com - Symbols of Satan? - Baphomet - Four Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
In the case of the Atbash cipher, the first letter of the alphabet is substituted for the last, the second for the second last and so on." I.e., for us the letter A becomes "Z", the letter "B" becomes "Y" and so on.
With the Atbash Cipher: Shin Vav Pe Yud Alef SOPHIA
Schonfield's Atbash cipher theory and what it showed when he applied it, is just one more excellent explanation of what "Baphomet" means - and we note that all the explanations yield the same meaning in the inner sense.
www.occultforums.com /printthread.php?t=11478   (5719 words)

  
 The Atbash Cipher: Analysis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
Atbash was a way for ancient sects that had either sparked suspicion or were already labeled as rebels to hide their beliefs and causes so no one could read things that were not intended for their eyes.
The cipher was used for over 1800 years, having passed through many different hands—from the writings of the Book of Jeremiah and the Dead Sea Scrolls to the heretical invention of Baphomet on the Templars’ part
As mentioned before, the cipher was intended to hide words from unwanted eyes, just like today’s Internet encryptions that prevent people from accessing important information not meant for them
www.freewebs.com /atbash_cipher/analysis.htm   (265 words)

  
 Atbash cipher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
We are quite happy that you have stumbled upon this webpage dealing with atbash cipher.
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As atbash cipher related subjects continue to gain in popularity, there will be many more locations to learn more about this pressing subject.
www.high-security-encryption.com /atbash-cipher.html   (333 words)

  
 Cryptography : Introduction and History - Ankit
Cryptanalysis:   The branch of cryptology dealing with breaking of cipher to recover information, or forging encrypted information that will be accepted as authentic.
The translation of encrypted text or data (called cipher text) into original text or data (called plaintext) is called “Decryption”.
This was reincarnated and used in WW-II by the US Navy as the Strip Cipher, M-138-A. -- William Frederick Friedman began work as a cryptanalyst for the U.S. government.  He later started the first military school for cryptanalysis.
www.ankitjain.info /articles/Cryptography_ankit2.htm   (790 words)

  
 Is Gog a Code Word?
In Atbash, the first letter would be substituted by the last letter, the second letter by the next to last letter, the third by the 20th, and so on.
Another example of Atbash ciphering in Scripture is found in Jer 51:1 (NIV translation) - "This is what the LORD says: "See, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and the people of Leb Kamai." (This coding is not so obvious in the KJV).
Instead of using the letter intended in the true Atbash formation, the variation would use the letter to the left of it on the bottom half and the letter to the right of it on the top half.
www.metrocast.net /~moza/atbash.htm   (940 words)

  
 Baphomet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
One such cipher, known to bible scholars and translators of the Dead Sea Scrolls, is the Atbash Cipher.
To use the cipher you swap the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet for the last, second for second to last, third for third to last and so on.
It is likely that among the knowledge passed to the Templars from the Cathars, would have been the knowledge of the Essene ciphers, including Atbash.
www.themage.net /Evil/Baphomet.htm   (985 words)

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