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AI Guesses Movie Review Topics from Encrypted Text (But It's Not Ready for Prime Time)
This study explores using deep learning models to predict the topic of encrypted text, achieving up to 80% accuracy in categorizing movie review topics based on ciphertext alone. The proposed framework utilizes chosen-plaintext cryptanalysis with AES encryption and deep learning architectures like CNNs, GRUs, and LSTMs, showcasing promising results but acknowledging limitations in generalizability and applicability to different attack scenarios.
Possible Conflicts of Interest
None identified
Identified Weaknesses
The dataset used is limited to IMDB movie reviews, which may not generalize well to other types of text data.
The fixed length of encrypted characters (160) restricts the applicability of the framework to real-world scenarios where ciphertext lengths may vary.
The study only addresses chosen-plaintext attacks, neglecting other cryptanalysis scenarios like ciphertext-only and known-plaintext attacks.
Manual topic labeling, while more accurate, was avoided due to time constraints, potentially impacting the quality of the topic modeling.
Rating Explanation
The paper presents a novel approach but has significant limitations, particularly in dataset scope and the handling of different cryptanalysis scenarios. The methodology is sound, but further research is needed to address these limitations before it can be considered truly impactful.
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Original Title:
Deep-Learning-based Cryptanalysis through Topic Modeling
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July 08, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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