In order to cipher a text, take the first letter of the message and the first letter of the key, add their value letters have a value depending on their rank in the alphabet , starting with 0. Continue with the next letter of the plaintext, and the next letter of the key.
When arrived at the end of the key, go back to the first letter of the key. Locate the first letter of the plaintext message in the first line of the table and the first letter of the key on the left column.
The cipher letter is at the intersection. Example: Locate the letter D on the first row, and the letter K on the first column, the ciphered letter is the intersection cell N. Vigenere decryption requires a key and an alphabet. As for encryption, two ways are possible. Decryption of Vigenere by subtracting letters.
To decrypt, take the first letter of the ciphertext and the first letter of the key, and subtract their value letters have a value equal to their position in the alphabet starting from 0. Continue with the next letters of the message and the next letters of the key, when arrived at the end of the key, go back the the first key of the key. Locates the first letter of the key in the left column, and locates on the row the first letter of the ciphered message.
Then go up in the column to read the first letter, it is the corresponding plain letter. Example: Locate the letter K on the first column, and on the row of it, find the cell of the letter N , the name of its column is D , it is the first letter of the plain message.
Following a Vigenere encryption, the message has a coincidence index which decreases between 0. Most common keyless techniques use statistical methods in order to find the key length, then a simple frequency analysis allows to find the key. The fact that repeating letters can be found means two things: either a same sequence of letter of the plaintext is crypted with the same part of the key, either different sequences letters are crypted with different parts of the key but they ends with the same crypted letters.
This second possibility is poorly probable. By analyzing the gaps between two identical redundant sequences, an attacker can find multiples of the key length. By analyzing each gaps in term of number of letters, and by calculating divisors , an attacker can deduct with a high probability the size of the key. Example: Positions of ABC are 0, 6 et 18, gaps are 6, 12 and 18 letters length, their most common divisors are 2, 3 and 6, so the key has a high probability to be 2, 3 or 6 letters long.
The test using the index of coincidence consists in taking one letter out of n in the ciphertext and calculate the IC. The higher it is, the higher the probability n is the key size. Indeed, taking one letter every n where n is the key-length, ends with a sequence of letters that are always crypted using the same shift. But thanks to an internal misconfiguration, Orca Security researchers were able to obtain more information than should have been allowed.
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This in itself set the Caherconnell pen apart, as the more common writing implement in the 11th century would have been the feather quill. The pen was unearthed form a layer of sediments dating to the 11th century. It would have worked well for ruling straight lines — to form, for instance, a frame for a page.
The foot-wide ringfort was built in the late 10th century and would have been home to wealthy — and, it seems, literate — local rulers until the early s. The Book of Kells manuscript, which eclipsed all other artistic and cultural achievements of the early Middle Ages, was created in around AD by Irish monks to glorify the life of Christ. It was made from calfskin leaves decorated with elaborate illustrations and Latin calligraphy. It contains the Latin text of the four Gospels and all but two of the pages are decorated with intricate designs and symbolic imagery.
It is thought it would have taken a team of illustrators up to 30 years to finish. A monastery founded around AD by St Colum Cille on Iona, an island off Mull in western Scotland, became the principal house of a large monastic confederation.
In AD, following Viking raids on the island which left 68 of the community dead, the Columban monks took refuge in a new monastery at Kells, County Meath. An outbreak of disease, possibly smallpox, that hit the monastery in the early part of the ninth century may also have contributed to the move.
The manuscript remained there for almost years, bar one incident when it was stolen and found weeks later without its golden, jewelled cover and with some pages missing. The Book of Kells was first started at a monastery on the on Iona, an island off western Scotland.
The first mention of this work of art is an the entry in the Annals of Ulster under the year AD, which records that 'the great Gospel book of Columcille, the chief relic of the western world, was stolen during the night from the great stone church of Cenannus Kells '. During the last century, an ever increasing number of scholars wanted access to the manuscript. In , Trinity College allowed Facsimile Verlag of Luzern, Switzerland, to photograph the complete manuscript and create a limited edition of 1, numbered copies.
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