Transposition Cipher

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Transposition Cipher

Changes the order of characters to obscure a message without altering the characters themselves.

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Decrypting tabular transposition cipher

Identify the number of characters and divide by the number of characters per row to ascertain the number of rows.

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Limitations of Transposition Cipher

Maintain letter frequency, making them susceptible to frequency analysis.

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An early version of transposition cipher

A paper wrapped around a stick of a given thickness and a message was written on the paper. Once unwrapped, the message was unreadable.

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Which statement is correct?

Select one:

a. Transposition Cipher substitutes characters in the original message according to a fixed scheme.

b. Transposition Cipher shifts characters around according to a regular scheme so that the result is a permutation of the original message.

c. Using matrix transpose, Transposition Cipher is based on linear algebra.

d, Transposition Cipher uses a public key to encode messages.

Transposition Cipher shifts characters around according to a regular scheme so that the result is a permutation of the original message.

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You can use a key for coding and decoding. Which statement is NOT correct about the key?

Select one:

The key can be of any length

The key can have digits

The key needs to be at least 5 characters long and up to 256

The key is a string

The key needs to be at least 5 characters long and up to 256.

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