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53 # Breaking transposition ciphers
54
55 attack the fort at dawn
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57 a t t a c
58 k t h e f
59 o r t a t
60 d a w n
61
62 akod ttra aean cft
63
64 Generally quite familiar...
65
66 ## Try all the keys, pick the one that looks most like Englilsh
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76 # ...Pick one that looks most like English
77
78 But the naïve Bayes score will always be the same!
79
80 * Same letters, just a different order.
81
82 Score by probability of substrings of letters
83
84 * Bigrams, trigrams, _n_-grams
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86 ---
87
88 # Finding _n_-grams
89
90 Given `count_2l.txt` and `count_3l.txt`, counts of bigrams and trigrams in English
91
92 # Write a function that returns all the _n_-grams for a text, given _n_
93 * Assume the text is already sanitised
94
95 # Build `P2l`, `P3l` (after `Pl`), `Pbigrams`, `Ptrigrams` (after `Pletters`)
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97 ---
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99 # Breaking scytale
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101 What are the possible keys?
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103 ---
104
105 # Try all the keys...
106
107 *All* the keys?
108
109 What's the transposition of 'cat'?
110
111 * 'bat'?
112 * 'car'?
113 * 'wry'?
114 * 'babe'?
115 * 'powwow'?
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119 # Equivalence classes and canonical forms
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121 Lots of words yield the same transposition
122
123 * They're all in the same equivalence class
124 * Only need to test one from the class
125
126 General idea: if there are different ways to represent something, pick one to make comparisons easier
127
128 * Canonical form, canonical representation
129
130 ---
131
132 # Finding the transpositions to try
133
134 ```
135 For each word:
136 if it's a new transposition:
137 add it to the list
138 ```
139
140 What data structure to use to store the transpositions?
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