Hill ciphers

Ghosh, Jonaki (2015) Hill ciphers. At Right Angles, 4 (3). pp. 62-71. ISSN 2582-1873

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Abstract

we had described in the previous article that Hill ciphers are an application of matrices to cryptography. Ciphers are methods for transforming a given message, the plaintext, into a new form that is unintelligible to anyone who does not know the key (the transformation used to convert the plaintext). In a cipher the key transforms the plaintext letters to other characters known as the ciphertext. The secret rule, that is, the inverse key, is required to reverse the transformation in order to recover the original message. To use the key to transform plaintext into ciphertext is to encipher the plaintext. To use the inverse key to transform the ciphertext back into plaintext is to decipher the ciphertext.

Item Type:	Articles in APF Magazines
Authors:	Ghosh, Jonaki
Document Language:	Language English
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Pedagogy, Objects
Subjects:	Natural Sciences > Mathematics
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > University Publications > At Right Angles
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/1685
Publisher URL:	http://publications.azimpremjifoundation.org/1685/...

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