Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers?

Nada Aldarrab, Jonathan May, 2021. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers).

Trains a character-level transformer to decode simple substitution ciphers directly, without searching for a key, and tests it on unseen keys and on several plaintext languages.

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What it's used for here

The cryptanalysis survey lists it among neural decipherment methods, and the inductive-methods survey includes it in its references.

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Cryptanalysis, inductive methods

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Aldarrab, N., & May, J. (2021). Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers?. Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.561

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Aldarrab, Nada and Jonathan May. “Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers?.” Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) (2021). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.561.