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aligh1979
Posts: 121
Posted 23:49 Oct 13, 2011 |

there is a section on lecture 5 that says this :

Playfairciphers are block ciphers. The size of the block is m = 2. Two characters are encrypted together
From the definition of the block cipher, it is clear that every block cipher is a polyalphabetic cipher because each character in a ciphertextblock depends on all characters in the plaintext block.
 
in a palyfair encryption , because we are encrypting two by two letters together , so the ciphertext  only depends on one more letter in the plaintext , I do not understand why each character in cipher depends on all characters in plaintext
hpguo
Posts: 139
Posted 10:24 Oct 14, 2011 |

each character in cipher depends on all characters in plaintext block.