![]() Polyalphabetic Substitution cipher was introduced by Leon Battista in the year 1568, and its prominent examples are Vigenère cipher and Beaufort cipher. This is true that the last four letters are the same but still different in both words. Example, 'INCLUDEHELP' will change to 'WDSAEQTGTAI' whereas 'HELP' will replace to 'RYCV'. In Polygram substitution cipher, instead of replacing one plain-text alphabet we simply replace a block of the word with another block of a word. For instance, A can be replaced with H, J, O, P and B will replace with any of the following inspite of A's key set D, I, W, Z etc. Like in plain cipher substation we replace an alphabet with a key but in case of Homophonic Substitution, we map an alphabet with a set of fixed keys (more than one key). ![]() The Homophonic substitution and mono-alphabetic substitution are very much alike. A cryptanalyst can try various alphabets in place of cipher-text alphabet or she can look for repeated patterns of the word for is example word 'to' or 'is' occur frequently in English so she can try replacing all the T's and O's from the cipher-text and deduce further to three letter words like 'the', 'and' and so on. English analyst found that the probability of occurrence of the letter P is 13.33% which highest followed by Z with 11.67% and occurrence of letters like C, K, L, N or R is negligible. ![]() There is only one problem with it and that is short text created using this technique, a crypto analyst can try different attacks solely based on her knowledge of the English language. Mathematically, we have 26 alphabet permutation which means (26 x 25 x 24 x.2) which is about 4 x 1026 possibilities. ![]() Let's say we substitute A with E that doesn't mean that B will be replaced by F. In this technique, we simply substitute any random key for each alphabet letter, that is 'A' can be being replaced with any letters from B to Z and 'B' can be changed to rest of the Alphabets but itself and so on. Predictability of Caesar Cipher was its weakness once any key replacement of a single alphabet is known then, the whole message can we decipher and almost 25 attempts are required to break it. Submitted by Himanshu Bhatt, on September 21, 2018Īs we already discussed what are the Substitution techniques and one of its type Ceasar Cipher? So we are not discussing it here for that please refer to Cryptography: CeasarCipher here: Cryptography: Caesar Cipher and its Python Implementations Types of Substitution Techniques ![]() Cryptography | Substitution Techniques: Here, we are going to learn about substitution of Cryptography, its types. ![]()
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