AUTOMATED CRYPTANALYSIS OF XOR PLAINTEXT STRINGS

1 April 1996

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Cryptologia

Vol. 20 (2) , 165-181
https://doi.org/10.1080/0161-119691884870

Abstract

In this paper a fully-automated attack on two XORed plaintext strings is implemented using only knowledge of the statistical properties of the plaintext language.

Keywords

STREAM CIPHER
KEYSTREAM
FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION
AUTOMATED CRYPTANALYSIS
STATISTICS
VERNAM CIPHER
ONE-TIME PAD.

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