ATBASH Cipher

A simple linear cipher originally used on the Hebrew alphabet. Atbash is considered a special case of Affine Cipher, a monoalphabetic substitution cipher.

How it works

Encoding

The ATBASH cipher is pretty simple, and all its does is reverse the letters in the alphabet: A becomes Z, B becomes Y, ..., Y becomes B, Z becomes A.

Here's the full table:

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M
Z	Y	X	W	V	U	T	S	R	Q	P	O	N

N	O	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z
M	L	K	J	I	H	G	F	E	D	C	B	A

Encoding the word crypto, we get:

C R Y P T O
X I B K G L

Decoding

We can observe that applying the code twice to a message letter, will leave us with the original message. To decrypt, we just have to re-apply the code.

X I B K G L
C R Y P T O

Cons

• Pretty simple and famous cipher.
• Frequency analysis can be used to crack the code, if the message is long enough.

Implementations

Language	Encrypt	Decrypt
C	ATBASHCipher.c	ATBASHCipher.c
C++	main.cpp	main.cpp
Javascript	encrypt.js	decrypt.js
Python	encrypt.py	decrypt.py
Swift	lib.swift	lib.swift

Running the tests

Tests are automatically handled by Travis CI.

Contributing

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Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

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See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details