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Caeser cipher _is_ a shift cipher, which is exactly what I said it was...
by rnovak 12y ago
Caeser cipher _is_ a shift cipher, which is exactly what I said it was...
- KMag 12y agoI was referring to "and a one time pad of all 'M'".
- rnovak 12y agoYeah, sorry, I'm not good enough with the math behind crypto enough to have recognized that :( learn something new every day.
- KMag 12y agoPerhaps my notation was a bit too terse. GF2(8) is a Galois field of order Pow(2, 8). The xor operation is addition in a Galois field, so 8-bit xor with 'M' is the same thing as a constant additive shift by 'M' in a Galois field of order Pow(2, 8). So, it's a Caesar shift cipher using the GF2(8) definition of byte addition rather than the standard modulo 256 definition.