You mean your plaintext message the yes you can but you have to separate it with an x when you put letters in pairs, but in a key no.
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The Playfair Cipher is useful because it requires no special equipment to use. However, it was invented in 1854 and is antiquated and rarely used in the present.
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Giles Playfair's birth name is Giles William Playfair.
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The Playfair is susceptible to digraph frequency analysis. Separate the plaintext into digraphs and do a frequency count. Once you've found that, compare the digraph frequency of the ciphertext to the digraph frequency of English and see how it might fit in to the Playfair grid. An intimate understanding of how letters in the grid relate to each other and implications of how the grid is affected by correspondences between the ciphertext and plaintext is critical. I'll try to post a help video on YouTube in the near future.
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Hi, I would say it is more than 120
It is. If my reasoning is correct, there are 360,000 unique ciphers. My reasoning is this: when i/j is counted as one letter and repetition is not allowed (as in Playfair), there are 25*24 = 600 possible digrams. Since each digram corresponds to one of those unique digrams, there are 600^2 = 360,000 unique Playfair ciphers (one should probably actually use 359,999 because one of the "ciphers" maps each digram to itself).
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Robert Smith Playfair has written:
'Fuller at Harvard'
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Nigel Playfair was born on July 1, 1874, in London, England, UK.
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Nigel Playfair died on August 19, 1934, in London, England, UK.
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Jessie Playfair Bickford has written:
'For this hour and other poems'
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Mark Playfair has written:
'Apartheid is not a game' -- subject(s): Apartheid, Relations
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Thomas Playfair Ward has written:
'The right to live'
'The clutches of circumstances'
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