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This is awesome, both how easily it's broken and how primitive the methods that criminals still use are. Are there literally no calculators or cell phones that
by Jach 15y ago
This is awesome, both how easily it's broken and how primitive the methods that criminals still use are. Are there literally no calculators or cell phones that can calculate available in prison? You'd think they'd all use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exch... these days. I remember more than one documentary sensationalizing "the codes", especially focusing on an apparently frequent use of gang-symbolism instead of words...
- tomjen3 15y agoI doubt you could get access to something like that in prison, but you could at least you the Vignere cipher. It can be done by hand, but it is still moderately difficult. Or be fancy and use the solitare algorithm. It is pretty much designed for this case.
- FreeFull 15y agoI wonder if you could change the Vignere cipher to be homophonic. Would that be harder to decrypt than a standard homophonic cipher?