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Making the most of two heuristics: breaking transposition ciphers with ants Russell, M.D.; Clark, J.A.; Stepney, S. Evolutionary Computation, 2003. CEC apos;03. The 2003 Congress on Volume 4, Issue , 8-12 Dec. 2003 Page(s): 2653 - 2658 Vol.4 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299423 Summary: Multiple anagramming is a general method for the cryptanalysis of transposition ciphers, and has a graph theoretic representation. Inspired by a partially mechanised approach used in World War II, we consider the possibility of a fully automated attack. Two heuristics based on measures of natural language are used - one to recognise plaintext, and another to guide construction of the secret key. This is shown to be unworkable for cryptograms of a certain difficulty due to random variation in the constructive heuristic. A solver based on an ant colony optimisation (AGO) algorithm is then introduced, increasing the range of cryptograms that can be treated; the pheromone feedback provides a mechanism for the recognition heuristic to correct the noisy constructive heuristic. » View citation and abstract



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