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