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Unicity distance

Amount of ciphertext needed to unambiguously break an encryption system

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digital object identifier

Categories

Cryptographic attacks Information theory

Sources

wikipedia.externallinksexternallink

International Standard Serial Number

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data compression

Vigenère cipher

brute-force attack

substitution cipher

binary logarithm

Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems

Alfred J. Menezes

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lossless compression

deniable encryption

ciphertext-only attack

substitution cipher

information theory

Nihilist cipher

brute-force attack

Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems

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substitution cipher

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downgrade attack

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transposition cipher

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De Bruijn sequence

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integrity constraints

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Five techniques

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