TheCodeBreakers
Thus a Kasiski examination sifts out the
identically keyed letters in a repeating key. A running key with a
coherent text can be solved by reciprocally reconstructing the plaintext
and the keytext. A running key with a random text used in two or more
messages succumbs to a simultaneous reconstruction of the two
plaintexts, one checking the other. Other polyalphabetics, such as the
autokey and the two-tape system, engender specialized solutions that
stem from their own peculiarities. The monoalphabetically enciphered
letters that are the goal of these techniques also exist in a Vernam one-
time system cryptogram because the 32 available cipher alphabets are
used over and over again. But the cryptanalyst has no way of sorting
them out because the key in a one-time system neither repeats, nor
recurs, nor makes sense, nor erects internal frameworks. Hence, his
methods, all based in one way or another on these characteristics, all
fail. The perfect randomness of the one-time system nullifies any