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Columnar Transposition Cipher Explained

The document describes a simple columnar transposition cipher that involves multiple rounds of encryption. It includes C++ code for both the encryption and decryption processes, demonstrating how to rearrange characters based on a provided key. The example uses a message 'HELLOWORLD' and a key '231' to illustrate the functionality of the cipher.

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Columnar Transposition Cipher Explained

The document describes a simple columnar transposition cipher that involves multiple rounds of encryption. It includes C++ code for both the encryption and decryption processes, demonstrating how to rearrange characters based on a provided key. The example uses a message 'HELLOWORLD' and a key '231' to illustrate the functionality of the cipher.

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COLUMNAR TRANSPOSITION CIPHER

Simple columnar transposition technique with multiple rounds is the same as basic; only the
difference is that we iterate the process multiple times in multiple rounds.

#include <bits/stdc++.h>

using namespace std;

string encrypt(string key, char mat[][3]) {

int rows = sizeof(mat) / sizeof(mat[0]);

int cols = sizeof(mat[0]) / sizeof(mat[0][0]);

string result = "";

for(int i=0; i < cols; i++) {

int selCol = key[i]-'0'-1;

for(int j = 0; j < 4; j++) {

if(mat[j][selCol]==0) continue;

result+=mat[j][selCol];

return result;

void decrypt(string key, string cipher) {

int rows = 4;

int cols = 3;

char mat[4][3];

int i=0, k=0, m=0;

while(k < [Link]()) {

int selCol = key[m]-'0'-1;

cout<<selCol;

mat[i][selCol] = cipher[k];

k++;

i++;

if(i==rows) {
i=0;

m++;

cout<<"\nPlain Text: ";

for(int i=0; i < 4; i++) {

for(int j=0; j < 3; j++) {

// if(mat[i][j]==0) continue;

cout<<mat[i][j];

int main()

string message = "HELLOWORLD";

string key = "231";

// char mat[ceil([Link]()/3)][[Link]()]; // mat[3][3]

char mat[4][3];

cout<<"Message: "<<message<<endl;

cout<<"Key: "<<key<<endl;

int i=0, j=0, k=0;

while(k < [Link]()) {

mat[i][j] = message[k];

k++;

j++;

if(j==3) {

j=0;

i++;

cout<<"Matrix: \n";
for(int i=0; i < 4; i++) {

for(int j=0; j < 3; j++) {

cout<<mat[i][j]<<'\t';

cout<<endl;

cout<<"Cipher: ";

string cipher = encrypt(key, mat);

cout<<cipher;

decrypt(key, cipher);

return 0;

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