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A visual representation of breaking the Affine Cipher
Basic Classic Symmetric Breakers Beginner

Breaking the Affine Cipher

Learn how to break the Affine cipher by brute-forcing its entire 312-key keyspace and scoring each decryption with a common-word heuristic. It's the same strategy that cracks Caesar, just applied to a slightly bigger lock.

15 min read

A visual representation of the Affine Cipher
Basic Classic Symmetric Beginner

The Affine Cipher

Learn about the Affine cipher, a generalization of the Caesar cipher that combines multiplication and addition to create a larger, but still breakable, keyspace.

14 min read

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