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Monday, November 25, 2013

Code 66 : Rotation Cipher

Rotation Cipher

Principle

The key in a rotation cipher is composed of the block size and the rotation angle. It can be rotated to the left or to the right by 90°, 180° or 270°. If the text "KURZERTEXT" should be encoded and we have a block size of 5, then the text is assigned to blocks like this:
KURZE
RTEXT
The box is read out line by line. Each different pattern of rotation will yield a different text as result.
90°
RK
TU
ER
XZ
TE
 
180°
TEXTR
EZRUK
270°
ET
ZX
RE
UT
KR
90°   RKTUERXZTE    
180° TXETREZRUK
270° ETZXREUTKR


Security

Security is dependent on the block size, a very small block size is more difficult to decode than a large one. The number of possible keys however is very small, especially for short texts.


Details

The rotation cipher belongs to the class of transposition ciphers.

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