16-06-2017, 06:00 AM
A polyalphabetic cipher encodes one to many. So plaintext A could be encoded as b,j,l or m. For example.
Hence, frequency distribution is pseudorandom in the cover text, and no, frequency distribution would not apply.
The VM almost -but not really- acts as if it were a simple Caeser cipher, because at first glance you could almost assume there was a glyph to glyph correspondence. Because glyphs are positionally aware. But when you examine the text, it doesn't yield to any known language. And with the corpus that we have, someone would have spotted something by now.
Have a quick search for Visconti, The subject has been mentioned a few times. Or start a new thread if you have a new angle.
Hence, frequency distribution is pseudorandom in the cover text, and no, frequency distribution would not apply.
The VM almost -but not really- acts as if it were a simple Caeser cipher, because at first glance you could almost assume there was a glyph to glyph correspondence. Because glyphs are positionally aware. But when you examine the text, it doesn't yield to any known language. And with the corpus that we have, someone would have spotted something by now.
Have a quick search for Visconti, The subject has been mentioned a few times. Or start a new thread if you have a new angle.