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3 rules of encryption in Playfair
Cipher are:
- If the 2 alphabets of a pair are in
the same row, then replace each alphabet with an alphabet which is
immediate right to it in the same row.
- If the 2 alphabets of a pair are in
the same column, then replace each alphabet with an alphabet which
is immediate down to it in the same column.
- If the 2 alphabets of a pair are
neither in the same column or row, then first form an imaginary
rectangle having the 2 alphabets as vertices of a diagonal, then
encrypt each alphabet by replacing it with the alphabet in the
other corner, but in the same row.
Here is my handwritten step by step
solution.
Finally we get the ciphertext as BVEFHZ for the message JILL