#https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifid_cipher def __encryptPart(messagePart, character2Number): one, two, three = "", "", "" tmp = [] for character in messagePart: tmp.append(character2Number[character]) for each in tmp: one += each[0] two += each[1] three += each[2] return one+two+three def __decryptPart(messagePart, character2Number): tmp, thisPart = "", "" result = [] for character in messagePart: thisPart += character2Number[character] for digit in thisPart: tmp += digit if len(tmp) == len(messagePart): result.append(tmp) tmp = "" return result[0], result[1], result[2] def __prepare(message, alphabet): #Validate message and alphabet, set to upper and remove spaces alphabet = alphabet.replace(" ", "").upper() message = message.replace(" ", "").upper() #Check length and characters if len(alphabet) != 27: raise KeyError("Length of alphabet has to be 27.") for each in message: if each not in alphabet: raise ValueError("Each message character has to be included in alphabet!") #Generate dictionares numbers = ("111","112","113","121","122","123","131","132","133","211","212","213","221","222","223","231","232","233","311","312","313","321","322","323","331","332","333") character2Number = {} number2Character = {} for letter, number in zip(alphabet, numbers): character2Number[letter] = number number2Character[number] = letter return message, alphabet, character2Number, number2Character def encryptMessage(message, alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.", period=5): message, alphabet, character2Number, number2Character = __prepare(message, alphabet) encrypted, encrypted_numeric = "", "" for i in range(0, len(message)+1, period): encrypted_numeric += __encryptPart(message[i:i+period], character2Number) for i in range(0, len(encrypted_numeric), 3): encrypted += number2Character[encrypted_numeric[i:i+3]] return encrypted def decryptMessage(message, alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.", period=5): message, alphabet, character2Number, number2Character = __prepare(message, alphabet) decrypted_numeric = [] decrypted = "" for i in range(0, len(message)+1, period): a,b,c = __decryptPart(message[i:i+period], character2Number) for j in range(0, len(a)): decrypted_numeric.append(a[j]+b[j]+c[j]) for each in decrypted_numeric: decrypted += number2Character[each] return decrypted if __name__ == '__main__': msg = "DEFEND THE EAST WALL OF THE CASTLE." encrypted = encryptMessage(msg,"EPSDUCVWYM.ZLKXNBTFGORIJHAQ") decrypted = decryptMessage(encrypted, "EPSDUCVWYM.ZLKXNBTFGORIJHAQ") print("Encrypted: {}\nDecrypted: {}".format(encrypted, decrypted))