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

Vic Cipher

Encrypts or decrypts a message using the Vic cipher.

Source library: secretpy

Historical Context

The VIC cipher was a pencil and paper cipher used by the Soviet spy Reino Häyhänen, codenamed "VICTOR".

How it Works

The VIC cipher is a complex transposition and substitution cipher. It involves a straddling checkerboard, a disrupted columnar transposition, and a final substitution.

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.