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  2. List of cryptographers - Wikipedia

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    Joan Clarke, English cryptanalyst and numismatist best known for her work as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War. Ross Anderson, UK. Eli Biham, Israel, co-discoverer of differential cryptanalysis and Related-key attack. Matt Blaze, US. Dan Boneh, US, Stanford University.

  3. Nihilist cipher - Wikipedia

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    The standard English straddling checkerboard has 28 characters and in this cipher these became "full stop" and "numbers shift". Numbers were sent by a numbers shift, followed by the actual plaintext digits in repeated pairs, followed by another shift. Then, similarly to the basic Nihilist, a digital additive was added in, which was called ...

  4. Book cipher - Wikipedia

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    A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key. A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in that book.

  5. Cipher - Wikipedia

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    Codes operated by substituting according to a large codebook which linked a random string of characters or numbers to a word or phrase. For example, "UQJHSE" could be the code for "Proceed to the following coordinates." When using a cipher the original information is known as plaintext, and the encrypted form as ciphertext. The ciphertext ...

  6. Vigenère cipher - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the plaintext is attacking tonight and the key is oculorhinolaryngology, then the first letter of the plaintext, a , is shifted by 15 positions in the alphabet, including itself (because the first letter of the key, o , is the 15th letter of the alphabet, counting from zero), yielding o ;

  7. Code (cryptography) - Wikipedia

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    In the example, the message 13 26 39 can be cracked by dividing each number by 13 and then ranking them alphabetically. However, the focus of codebook cryptanalysis is the comparative frequency of the individual code elements matching the same frequency of letters within the plaintext messages using frequency analysis .

  8. List of Mersenne primes and perfect numbers - Wikipedia

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    So, 6 is a perfect number because the proper divisors of 6 are 1, 2, and 3, and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. [2] [4] There is a one-to-one correspondence between the Mersenne primes and the even perfect numbers, but it is unknown whether there exist odd perfect numbers. This is due to the Euclid–Euler theorem, partially proved by Euclid and completed by ...

  9. Perfect number - Wikipedia

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    In number theory, a perfect number is a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its positive proper divisors, that is, divisors excluding the number itself. For instance, 6 has proper divisors 1, 2 and 3, and 1 + 2 + 3 = 6, so 6 is a perfect number. The next perfect number is 28, since 1 + 2 + 4 + 7 + 14 = 28.