Tool for encrypting and decrypting messages with Twin Hex encryption, an encryption algorithm based on pairs of letters encoded in base 36.
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What is Twin Hex cipher? (Definition)
How to encrypt using Twin Hex cipher?
The Twin Hex encryption process only works on printable ASCII characters (codes 32 to 127).
Example: Encrypt the dCode message
Each pair of characters (bigram) is then indexed according to its rank among possible bigrams (the first bigram with codes 32,32 has the value $0$, then 32,33 has the index $1$, up to '127,127 ' which has a value of $9216). If the message is odd in length, complete with a space.
Example: dC has index $ 6563 $, od has index $ 7652 $ and e (a space has been added) has index $ 6624 $.
The index is then converted to base36 (symbols 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz) optionally supplemented by spaces (on the right) to obtain a trigram.
Example: $ 6563_{(10)} = \texttt{52b}_{(36)} $ (see the page dedicated to base n conversion)
The concatenation of the trigrams obtained forms the encrypted message.
Example: dCode is encrypted in Twin Hex as 52b5wk540
How to decrypt Twin Hex cipher?
To decipher Twin Hex ciphertext, the decryption process begins by breaking the text into trigrams.
Example: Decrypt the message 3x35gu14 56g
Each trigram is then considered as a base36 number whose decimal value corresponds to an index among the possible ASCII bigrams.
Example: $ \texttt{3x3}_{(36)} = 5079_{(10)} $ and $ 5079 $ corresponds to the bigram Tw
$ \texttt{5gu}_{(36)} = 7086_{(10)} $ and $ 7086 $ matches the bigram in, etc.
The plain message consists of the concatenation of the bigrams obtained.
Example: The original message is 'Twin Hex'
How to recognize a Twin Hex ciphertext? (Identification)
Twin Hex is made up of lowercase alphanumeric characters a-z0-9 (default).
The indication twin or jumeau is a clue.
Mike Brockington's site here seems to be the original source but the form does not work correctly, use with caution.
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