AzelusLightvale-ComfyUI-ARG-Toolkit/web/docs/Nihilist.md

Nihilist Cipher

Encrypts or decrypts a message using the Nihilist cipher.

Source library: secretpy

Historical Context

The Nihilist cipher was a manually operated symmetric encryption cipher used by Russian Nihilists in the 1880s to organize terrorism against the tsarist regime.

How it Works

The Nihilist cipher is a polyalphabetic substitution cipher that uses a keyword to create a mixed alphabet. The plaintext is then encrypted using a series of shifts based on the key.

Parameters

• text: The message to encrypt or decrypt.
• alphabet: The alphabet to use for the cipher. Can be a string of characters or a predefined alphabet from secretpy.alphabets.
• key: The key for the cipher.
• mode: Whether to encrypt or decrypt the message.
• keep_formatting: Whether to keep the original formatting of the message.