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.