- breaks = pool.starmap(column_transposition_break_worker,
- helper_args, chunksize)
- best = max(breaks, key=lambda k: k[1])
- return math.trunc(len(message) / len(best[0][0])), best[1]
-scytale_break = scytale_break_mp
+ breaks = pool.starmap(hill_break_worker, helper_args, chunksize)
+ if number_of_solutions == 1:
+ return max(breaks, key=lambda k: k[1])
+ else:
+ return sorted(breaks, key=lambda k: k[1], reverse=True)[:number_of_solutions]
+
+def hill_break_worker(message, matrix, fitness):
+ plaintext = hill_decipher(matrix, message)
+ fit = fitness(plaintext)
+ logger.debug('Hill cipher break attempt using key {0} gives fit of '
+ '{1} and decrypt starting: {2}'.format(matrix,
+ fit, sanitise(plaintext)[:50]))
+ return matrix, fit