22 • Polybious Square

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> Polybius square, also known as the Polybius checkerboard, is a device invented by the Ancient Greekhistorian and scholar Polybius, for fractionating plaintext characters so that they can be represented by a smaller set of symbols.



(Note: create a table of any size, readings should start in column then row)



Example:5x5

  1  2  3 4 5
1|A|B|C|D|E|
2|F|G|H| I |K|
3|L|M|N|O|P|
4|Q|R|S|T|U|
5|V|W|X|Y|Z|


Ciphertext: 3,2 3,4 3,3 4,3 4,4 1,5 4,2   or

Ciphertext: 32 34 33 43 44 15 42

Plaintext: MONSTER

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