Scytale fixed by padding message during enciphering and assuming all rows are the...

[cipher-tools.git] / cipher.py

diff --git a/cipher.py b/cipher.py
index 2ce1c929c7f06f5f081ec70802be5832b01ca03b..20d144a710e2a27a63f830ad1426e8afd9561bee 100644 (file)
--- a/cipher.py
+++ b/cipher.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import string
 import collections
 import norms
 import logging
+import math
 from itertools import zip_longest
 from segment import segment
 
@@ -304,6 +305,46 @@ def keyword_decipher(message, keyword, wrap_alphabet=0):
     cipher_translation = ''.maketrans(cipher_alphabet, string.ascii_lowercase)
     return message.lower().translate(cipher_translation)
 
+def scytale_encipher(message, rows):
+    """Enciphers using the scytale transposition cipher.
+    Message is padded with spaces to allow all rows to be the same length.
+
+    >>> scytale_encipher('thequickbrownfox', 3)
+    'tcnhkfeboqrxuo iw '
+    >>> scytale_encipher('thequickbrownfox', 4)
+    'tubnhirfecooqkwx'
+    >>> scytale_encipher('thequickbrownfox', 5)
+    'tubn hirf ecoo qkwx '
+    >>> scytale_encipher('thequickbrownfox', 6)
+    'tqcrnxhukof eibwo '
+    >>> scytale_encipher('thequickbrownfox', 7)
+    'tqcrnx hukof  eibwo  '
+    """
+    if len(message) % rows != 0:
+        message += ' '*(rows - len(message) % rows)
+    row_length = round(len(message) / rows)
+    slices = [message[i:i+row_length] for i in range(0, len(message), row_length)]
+    return ''.join([''.join(r) for r in zip_longest(*slices, fillvalue='')])
+
+def scytale_decipher(message, rows):
+    """Deciphers using the scytale transposition cipher.
+    Assumes the message is padded so that all rows are the same length.
+    
+    >>> scytale_decipher('tcnhkfeboqrxuo iw ', 3)
+    'thequickbrownfox  '
+    >>> scytale_decipher('tubnhirfecooqkwx', 4)
+    'thequickbrownfox'
+    >>> scytale_decipher('tubn hirf ecoo qkwx ', 5)
+    'thequickbrownfox    '
+    >>> scytale_decipher('tqcrnxhukof eibwo ', 6)
+    'thequickbrownfox  '
+    >>> scytale_decipher('tqcrnx hukof  eibwo  ', 7)
+    'thequickbrownfox     '
+    """
+    cols = round(len(message) / rows)
+    columns = [message[i:i+rows] for i in range(0, cols * rows, rows)]
+    return ''.join([''.join(c) for c in zip_longest(*columns, fillvalue='')])
+
 
 def caesar_break(message, metric=norms.euclidean_distance, target_frequencies=normalised_english_counts, message_frequency_scaling=norms.normalise):
     """Breaks a Caesar cipher using frequency analysis