Cryptography with Python - Affine Cipher

Affine Cipher is the combination of Multiplicative Cipher and Caesar Cipher algorithm. The basic implementation of affine cipher is as shown in the image below −

In this chapter, we will implement affine cipher by creating its corresponding class that includes two basic functions for encryption and decryption.

Code

You can use the following code to implement an affine cipher −

class Affine(object):
   DIE = 128
   KEY = (7, 3, 55)
   def __init__(self):
      pass
   def encryptChar(self, char):
      K1, K2, kI = self.KEY
      return chr((K1 * ord(char) + K2) % self.DIE)
		
   def encrypt(self, string):
      return "".join(map(self.encryptChar, string))
   
   def decryptChar(self, char):
      K1, K2, KI = self.KEY
      return chr(KI * (ord(char) - K2) % self.DIE)
   
   def decrypt(self, string):
      return "".join(map(self.decryptChar, string))
		affine = Affine()
print affine.encrypt('Affine Cipher')
print affine.decrypt('*18?FMT')

Output

You can observe the following output when you implement an affine cipher −

The output displays the encrypted message for the plain text message Affine Cipher and decrypted message for the message sent as input abcdefg.