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1 Ciphers: Making and Breaking Ralph Morelli Trinity College, Hartford Smithsonian Institute October 31, 2009

2 2009 Ralph Morelli You are free to reuse and remix this presentation under a creative commons license provided you give credit to the author. This presentation was created using Open Office 3.0, free and open source software.

3 Part II: Cryptology in Transition

4 Outline Polyalphabetic Substitution Alberti Cipher Vigenère Cipher Le Chiffre Indéchiffrable Kasiski Decipherment Mechanical Ciphers The Enigma Machine WWII

5 Leon Battista Alberti ( )

6 Leon Battista Alberti ( ) Renaissance man. Architect, author, artist, poet, philosopher. Father of Modern Cryptography First western exposition of frequency analysis. Invention of polyalphabetic cipher. Courtyard of the Uffizi Palace

7 Alberti the Architect Santa Maria Novella Florence

8 De Cifris First comprehensive account of cryptanalysis in the West. Invention of the polyalphabetic cipher.

9 Alberti Cipher Disk Outer disk stationary with regular alphabet. Inner disk moveable with permuted alphabet. An inner disk letter (k) is picked as index, and aligned with some letter on outer disk (B). The index is changed every 3 or 4 words and inserted into the message. Ciao amici might be encrypted as BlvgyCeztkt.

10 Compare Letter Frequencies Plain Caesar Simple Polyalphabetic

11 Polyalphabetic Development Alberti (~ 1472): devised genuine polyalphabetic cipher with mixed alphabet plus a practical cipher disk device. Abbot Trithemius (~ 1508): used tables of regular alphabets to be used in fixed order. Giovanni Battista Belaso (~ 1550 ): invented principle of a key or keyword to select alphabets. Giovanni Battista Porta (~ 1563): invented using mixed alphabets. Blaise de Vigenère (~ 1586): combined table or Trithemius, keyword of Belaso, and mixed alphabets of Porta into an autokey cipher.

12 Johannes Trithemius ( ) Abbot, occultist. First printed book crypto book. Most famous for Steganagraphia (banned book). Believed to be about occult. Decrypted in 1998.

13 Trithemius Cipher The Trithemius Cipher cycles through each row of the table. Encryption: Meetusatthebridge ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ MFEWYXGABQOMDVRVG

14 So-called Chiffre Indéchiffrable The Bellaso Cipher uses a keyword to select alphabets. Encryption: ZEBRASZEBRASZEBRAS therearesomethirty SLFIESQITFMWSLJRTQ ** ** Decryption: ZEBRASZEBRASZEBRAS slfiesqitfmwsljrtq THEREARESOMETHIRTY

15 Vigenère's Autokey Cipher Uses mixed alphabets and the text itself as the key. Encryption: Therearesomethirty (MSG=col) Xtherearesomethirt (KEY=row) OZGUUAOUVIZNWZMYDP (Crypto) Decryption: OZGUUAOUVIZNWZMYDP(MSG=ltr) XthereareS.. (KEY=row) O in row X gives column T... V in row E gives column S A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Z E B R A F I S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y E B R A F I S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z B R A F I S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E R A F I S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B A F I S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R F I S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A I S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F S H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I H C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S C D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H D G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C G J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D J K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y Z E B R A F I S H C D G K L M N O P Q T U V W X Y

16 Jefferson's Wheel Cipher Invented in wheels with random 26- letter alphabets. Reinvented by Etienne Bazeries in 1890s with wheels. Rearrange the wheels (key) and write message in one row and transmit any other row. U.S. Army M-94,

17 Our Polyalphabetic Cipher Disk Outer disk stationary with regular alphabet. Inner disk moveable with permuted alphabet. Keyword = zebrafish A B C D E F G H I/ J K L M N O P Q R S T U/ V X W Y X Z z e b r a f i/j s h c d g k l m n p q t u/v w o x y

18 Cipher Disk Exercise 1. Pick a keyword and write it in lower case letters, L to R, on the inner disk. 2. Fill in the rest of the alphabet on the inner disk (i/j and u/v go in one cell each). 3. Pick a key (e.g., A = k) and align the disks. 4. Encrypt: For each plaintext letter, find it on the outer disk and substitute the lower case letter on the inner disk. 5. Decrypt: For each ciphertext letter, find it on the inner disk and substitute the upper case letter on the outer disk.

19 Breaking the Unbreakable Cipher

20 Breaking the Vigenère Cipher Vigenère cipher a keyword of length n is used to select from among 26 Caesar-shifted alphabets. Thought to be unbreakable for ~ 300 years. 1863: Friederich Kasiski, a Prussian major, developed a method to break it. 1846: Charles Babbage, a British mathematician, philosopher, and inventor, discovered the same method. Basic approach: Find the length of the keyword, n, and use frequency analysis on the n columns, each of which is a Caesar shifted alphabet.

21 Kasiski Method Location: Keyword: RELAT IONSR ELATI ONSRE LATIO NSREL... Plaintext: TOBEO RNOTT OBETH ATIST HEQUE STION... Ciphertext: KSMEH ZBBLK SMEMP OGAJX SEJCS FLZSY... Repeated Bigram Location Distance Factors KS 9 9 9, 3 SM , 3 ME , Find the distances between repeated bigrams, some of which are due to repeated bigrams in the plaintext. Factor the distances the keyword should have length equal to one factor. Break the text into columns and use frequency analysis on each column to identify the shifted alphabet used to encrypt that column.

22 Automating Kasiski's Method

23 Index of Coincidence Index of coincidence the number of times two identical letters occur in the same position in two adjacent texts. William F. Friedman (Father of American cryptography). Language Normalized IC (1/26) Plain English German Caesar English Simple English Substitution Uniform distribution

24 Plain IC Example Caesar Simple Polyalphabetic 0.040

25 The Chi-square Test Used for comparing and observed frequency distribution with an expected distribution. Goodness-of-fit statistic the smaller the better.

26 Automated Algorithm Assumes: long enough polyalphabetic cipher text For each possible keyword length, 2, 3, 4,..., k Divide the text into k columns. Compute the average the IC for the columns. Select the IC that is closest to For each of the k columns For each possible shift, Compute the Chi-square value. Select the minimum as the correct Caesar alphabet. Demo:

27 Rotor Machines

28 The Enigma Machine

29 The Enigma Rotor

30 Rotor Details

31 Wiring Diagram Cool Simulation:

32 Enigma Cryptanalysis: Poles 1931: Poles deduced the wirings of rotors from betrayed documents and made a replica. Code book with daily keys Plugboard settings: A/K, B/G, M/S, Rotor order: Rotor setting: Q-C-W Message key transmitted twice: RAMRAM LVGHIB Polish cryptanalysis cracked the day keys: L and H encrypt R, V and I encrypt A, G and B encrypt M. Letter chains (A F W A) led to deduction of daily key. Marian Rejewski: Number of links independent of plugboard so daily keys reduced to 6 x 26 3 = 105,456.

33 Breaking Enigma Marian Rejewski Polish Biuro Syzfrow Alan Turing Government Code and Cypher School Hut 6, Bletchley Park

34 Enigma Cryptanalysis: Brits Alan Turing, GC&CS, Bletchley Park 159,000,000,000,000,000,000 daily keys. Exploited cycles within cribs of probable words. f u h r e r f--r--r--e--e--f R J T E F H Turing bombes 16 in all, each with 12 sets of Enigma rotors for loops of up to 12 links. Given a crib, the bombes would work out the rotor settings (independent of plugboard).

35 Bletchley Park Bombe Replica used in Enigma movie. Bletchley Park Model

36 Principles and Observations Kerckhoff's principle the cipher requires a key and should work even if the cipher is known. Simplicity More secure ciphers went unused because they were thought to be too difficult. Cryptanalysts were ahead of cryptographers. Mary Queen of Scots' problem: Implementation, implementation, implementation.

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