Acknowledgements

CryptoCrack version 3 was written using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 C# and XAML software on Windows 10 and has been developed with the support of many people and sites for which I'm very grateful.

• Members of Stack Overflow and the MSDN Forums for their generous support and programming ideas and for the wealth of knowledge on the websites on using C# and XAML. These have proved invaluable in developing CryptoCrack.

• ACA member BION for the Identify Cipher algorithm, published in the American Cryptogram Association magazine The Cryptogram (May-June 2005) 

• https://sites.google.com/site/bionspot/ph-hill-climbing for the article  on an improved hill-climbing algorithm.

• Michael J. Cowan, 2008. Breaking Short Playfair Ciphers with the Simulated Annealing Algorithm.

• Nils Kopal,  University of Siegen. 2019. Cryptanalysis of Homophonic Substitution Ciphers Using Simulated Annealing with Fixed Temperature.

• D. Goldhahn, T. Eckart & U. Quasthoff: Building Large Monolingual Dictionaries at the Leipzig Corpora Collection: From 100 to 200 Languages.

In: Proceedings of the 8th International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), 2012 

• My thanks to https://www.creativefreedom.co.uk  and https://www.freeiconspng.com/img/32124 for the icons.

I would also like to thank the users of CryptoCrack who have contributed many suggestions and ideas over the years for improving CryptoCrack. In particular I would like to thank Prof. Bernhard Esslinger, project lead and founder of CrypTool, University of Siegen for his many suggestions and ideas for improving CryptoCrack and André  Van Moer for his testing on Windows 10 LTSC.