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  2. Hill cipher - Wikipedia

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    Hill's cipher machine, from figure 4 of the patent. In classical cryptography, the Hill cipher is a polygraphic substitution cipher based on linear algebra.Invented by Lester S. Hill in 1929, it was the first polygraphic cipher in which it was practical (though barely) to operate on more than three symbols at once.

  3. Unicity distance - Wikipedia

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    where U is the unicity distance, H(k) is the entropy of the key space (e.g. 128 for 2 128 equiprobable keys, rather less if the key is a memorized pass-phrase). D is defined as the plaintext redundancy in bits per character. Now an alphabet of 32 characters can carry 5 bits of information per character (as 32 = 2 5).

  4. Block size (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    Thus even when used with a proper encryption mode (e.g. CBC or OFB), only 2 32 × 8 B = 32 GB of data can be safely sent under one key. [citation needed] In practice a greater margin of security is desired, restricting a single key to the encryption of much less data — say a few hundred megabytes. At one point that seemed like a fair amount ...

  5. Polygraphic substitution - Wikipedia

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    This was followed up over the next fifty years with the closely related four-square and two-square ciphers, which are slightly more cumbersome but offer slightly better security. [1] In 1929, Lester S. Hill developed the Hill cipher, which uses matrix algebra to encrypt blocks of any desired length. However, encryption is very difficult to ...

  6. Key schedule - Wikipedia

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    In cryptography, the so-called product ciphers are a certain kind of cipher, where the (de-)ciphering of data is typically done as an iteration of rounds. The setup for each round is generally the same, except for round-specific fixed values called a round constant, and round-specific data derived from the cipher key called a round key.

  7. Coded letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, are deciphered ... - AOL

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    “Using computerized codebreaking techniques, together with manual textual and contextual analysis, we were able to recover the cipher key and decipher all the letters,” researchers wrote.

  8. Jerry Jones has reportedly talked to Deion Sanders about ...

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    Sanders' charisma has drawn in key players to Colorado, and Jackson State before he took the CU job, and he has gone about his coaching career with his trademark style, plastering Colorado all ...

  9. One-way compression function - Wikipedia

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    If the block cipher has different block and key sizes the hash value will have the wrong size for use as the key. The cipher might also have other special requirements on the key. Then the hash value is first fed through the function to be converted/padded to fit as key for the cipher.