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Crank is short for "CRyptANalysis toolKit", and its overall purpose is to
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provide a powerful and extensible environment for solving classical
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(pen-and-paper) ciphers, providing as much automation as possible. Classical
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ciphers include common schemes like monoalphabetic substitutions, where each
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letter of the alphabet is mapped to another (usually different) letter
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consistently through the text. The first version of Crank is restricting
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itself to these special ciphers. Other algorithms forever devoid of Crank's
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attentions include Enigma, RSA, DES, MurkelFish, or anything else invented
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after 1900. They're hard(er).
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WWW: http://crank.sourceforge.net/
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