# Aldarrab 2021: Can Sequence-to-Sequence Models Crack Substitution Ciphers?

> Nada Aldarrab, Jonathan May, 2021. 2 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The cryptanalysis survey lists it among neural decipherment methods, and…

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# 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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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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