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CipherSniffer: Classifying Cipher Types
Brendan Artley, Greg Mehdiyev
Ciphers are a powerful tool for encrypting communication. There are many different cipher types, which makes it computationally expensive to solve a cipher using brute force. In this paper, we frame the decryption task as a classification problem. We first create a dataset of transpositions, substitutions, text reversals, word reversals, sentence shifts, and unencrypted text. Then, we evaluate the performance of various tokenizer-model combinations on this task.
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