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April 27, 2011 19:15
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Frequency Analysis on a text (Caesar cipher + key search)
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static Dictionary<char, double> AnalyseFrequency(string text) | |
{ | |
if (text == null) | |
return null; | |
Dictionary<char, double> frequencies = new Dictionary<char, double>(); | |
int textLength = text.Length; | |
for (int i = 0; i < textLength; i++) | |
{ | |
char c = text[i]; | |
char key = '#'; | |
//ignore chars that are not letters | |
if ((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')) | |
key = c; | |
if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z') | |
key = (char)(c + 'a' - 'A'); | |
if (frequencies.Keys.Contains(key)) | |
frequencies[key] = frequencies[key] + 1; | |
else | |
frequencies[key] = 1; | |
} | |
//cannot enumerate throught the dictionnay keys directly. | |
List<char> keys = frequencies.Keys.ToList(); | |
foreach (char c in keys) | |
{ | |
frequencies[c] /= textLength; | |
} | |
return frequencies; | |
} | |
frequencies = AnalyseFrequency(caesarCryptogram); | |
double maxFreq = frequencies.Values.Max(); | |
char maxChar = frequencies.Keys.Where(c => frequencies[c] == maxFreq).FirstOrDefault(); | |
//'E' is the maxChar | |
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("E is probably: {0} - {1}", maxChar, maxFreq)); | |
Console.WriteLine(string.Format("Key would be: {0}", (char) (maxChar - 'e' + 'A'))); |
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