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Command-line tool that breaks rotating-xor (and similar) ciphertexts

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Right now, this is the bottleneck that prevents quick cryptanalysis in case the key length is greater than 1000.

performance

The cryptanalysis implicitly assumes that all key characters have equal probability, and that the same holds for the resulting ciphertext distribution. This is true for 'classic' use cases, but not...

high-level

It was reached via repeated trial and error, and the main guarantee on its success is that we have not seen it unexpectedly fail yet. The algorithm ought to benefit...

don't hold your breath
high-level

It's MOST of a bible, up to the book of Malachi. I Googled for a full bible and that's what I was able to easily find at 2AM when I...

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