caesarcrack

CaesarCrack

This is my poor implementation of a dictionary attack on Caesar ciphers.

It has a single dependency for debugging visibility, go-spew, and is otherwise written by hand.

Originally, I wrote this to guess at the best shift (most dictionary hits) of the three longest words. I decided to perform the attack on all 26 shifts, and pick the highest confidence based on number of dictionary hits as a means to better handle dictionary misses, misspellings, etc.

CaesarCrack is vulnerable to simply misspelling every ciphered word, causing all confidences to be very low.

TODO:

• Replace test string with file input
• Support stdin for cli piping (e.g. pbpaste | caesarcrack)
• consider displaying confidence distribution chart in cli
• Support punctuation, etc.
• Handle case