Automated cryptanalysis of xor plaintext strings

Cryptologia

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 165-181

  Dawson, E ^a   Nielsen, L ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Automated cryptanalysis; Frequency distribution; Keystream; One time pad; Statistics; Stream cipher; Vernam cipher

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349176399     PISSN: 01611194     EISSN: 15581586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0161-119691884870     Document Type: Article

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