Testing hillclimbing and simulated annealing
Some experiments to determine if simulated annealing is better than hillclimbing.
codes and ciphers
Codes, ciphers, and breaking them. These posts are mostly aimed at secondary school level readers. Image from [Wikimedia commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bletchley_Park_Manor_House_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1311437.jpg)
Simulated annealing and breaking substitution ciphers
What simulated annealing is, and how it works.
Breaking keyword substitution ciphers without a keyword
Solving ciphers when you have no idea about the key
Breaking keyword substitution ciphers
Using multiprocessing to break keyword ciphers quickly.
Keyword substitution ciphers
Keyword ciphers, and some extra Python features.
Breaking Caesar ciphers with a spreadsheet
Cryptanalysis, just not using a programming langauge.