Elementary cryptanalysis
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. CHAPTER I General Information4. CHAPTER II Concealment Devices5. CHAPTER III Transposition Types6. CHAPTER IV Geometrical Types — The Nihilist Transposition7. CHAPTER V Geometrical Types — The Turning Grille8. CHAPTER VI Irregular Types — Columnar Transposition9. CHAPTER VII General Methods — Multiple Anagramming, Etc.10. CHAPTER VIII Substitution Types11. CHAPTER IX Simple Substitution — Fundamentals12. CHAPTER X The Consonant-Line Short Cut13. CHAPTER XI Simple Substitution with Complexities14. CHAPTER XII Multiple-Alphabet Ciphers — The Vigenère15. CHAPTER XIII The Gronsfeld, Porta, and Beaufort Ciphers16. CHAPTER XIV The Kasiski Method for Periodic Ciphers17. CHAPTER XV Miscellaneous Phases of Vigenère Decryptment18. CHAPTER XVI Auto-Encipherment19. CHAPTER XVII Some Periodic Number-Ciphers20. CHAPTER XVIII Periodic Ciphers with Mixed Alphabets21. CHAPTER XIX Polyalphabetical Encipherment Applied by Groups22. CHAPTER XX Vigenère with Key-Progression23. CHAPTER XXI Polygram Substitution — The Playfair Cipher24. CHAPTER XXII Highlights of Fractional Substitution25. CHAPTER XXIII Investigating the Unknown Cipher26. APPENDIX27. BIBLIOGRAPHY By W. D. Witt28. INDEX29. Transcriber's Note