CPT 341 VB.

NET Project 2
Windows Form Application - Symmetric Key Encryption

Topics:
Simple Encryption/Decryption, String Manipulation & Conversion, File I/O,
Sequential Text File, ComboBox Control, OpenFileDialog() Control, ASCII
Character Set, Asc(), Chr(), SubString(), Mod Operator

Develop a Visual Basic Windows Forms application that will encrypt (character
shift) the characters in a string based on a symmetric key (process known as
symmetric-key cryptography). The application must also decrypt the message
based on the symmetric key used.

Sample Windows Form Controls

General Requirements

The clear-text message (that will be encrypted) is to be stored in a text-file.

o The text-file is to be selected using an OpenFileDialog runtime control
object
o Text-file contents are to be displayed in a Textbox control located on
the Windows form (you can also use this textbox to input clear-text
characters)
 Keys are contained in a ComboBox control object. Users can select a
particular key resulting in alternate cipher-text output
o Keys are to be a minimum of 4 digits. Each key digit is used for
encoding where your program will move to the next digit for every
character in the clear-text message.
Since there are a limited number of digits in a key, your program
must wrap-back to the first digit
o The selected key must be stored in an array
Using the same key for encryption, decrypt the cipher-text message and
display it in a textbox on the Windows Form
Since only printable characters are used (see table), if the ANSI code
becomes larger than 126, you will need to wrap around to the ANSI code 32
(space)
Use exception handling where needed.
Add comments throughout your code

Example: Using a sample key of 58912, the output would be as follows:

Clear Character N J I T V B N e T
ASCII Code 78 74 73 84 32 86 66 78 101 84
ASCII Code + Key 83 82 82 85 34 91 74 87 102 86
Value
Shifted Character S R R U [ J W f V

Clear-Text: NJIT VBNet

Cipher-Text: SRRU[JWfV
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Project 2 Due Date: 02/20/2017
Note: Send all completed VB Project files to: wxt1955@njit.edu (or use
Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.)

ANSI Character Set

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Project 2 Due Date: 02/20/2017
Note: Send all completed VB Project files to: wxt1955@njit.edu (or use
Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.)