SCHOOL OF COMPUTING

DEPARTMENT OF CSE

1152CS101 – CRYPTOGRAPHY & NETWORK SECURITY

Assignment-1 Questions

Faculty Name: Mr.A.ARUL PRASATH / CSE Slot: S3

CO1 Explain various Cryptographic Techniques K3

CO2 Apply various public key cryptography Techniques K3

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1. Solve the Caesar cipher with key value 5 by performing

encrypting and decrypting for the plaintext “Attack postponed to VTU10017
evening”. CO1 K3
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2. Use Chinese remainder theorem and solve the given inear
equations to find x. VTU10056
x ≡ 2 mod 3; x ≡ 3 mod 5; x ≡ 2 mod 7 CO2 K3
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1. Illustrate polyalphabetic cipher for the given plaintext ”hard work VTU10134
succeeds” using the key “password”. Note: Ignore spaces in CO1 K3
plaintext. VTU10154
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2. Using Fermat’s theorem, find 3201 mod 11. CO2 K3 VTU10207

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1. Use playfair cipher technique and perform encryption and

decryption for the plain text”welcome to india” and keyword CO1 K3
“HACKER”. VTU10267

2. Make use of S-DES, decrypt the string (10100010) using the key VTU10350
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(0111111101) .Show intermediate results after each function (IP, CO2 K3
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Fk, SW, Fk, IP-1). Then decode the first 4 bits of the plaintext
string to a letter and the second 4 bits to another letterwhere we VTU10514
encode A through P in base 2 (i.e., A = 0000,B = 0001,..,P = 1111)
 1. Demonstrate Hill Cipher for the plaintext “PAY”, use keyword CO1 K3
“ABILITIES”. VTU10591

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4 2. Compare the initial permutation table of DES with the permuted
choice one table. Are the structures similar? If so, describe the CO2 K4 VTU11111
similarities. What conclusion can you draw from this analysis?
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1 Employ onetime pad encryption technique to encrypt & decrypt CO1 K3 VTU11138
the given plaintext”study well” using the keyword ”beautiful”.
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2 Solve for the given values: p=3, q=11, e=7 and m=5, using RSA CO2 K3 VTU11162
algorithm.
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1. Operate monoalphabetic substitution technique to encrypt &

decrypt the given plain text ”You are discovered”. CO1 K3
Note: You have to frame plaintext and key mapping of your VTU11218
choice.
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2. Interpret that in DES, the first 24 bits of each subkey come from VTU11326
the same subset of 28 bits of the initial key and that the second 24 CO2 K3
bits of each subkey come from a disjoint subset of 28 bits of the VTU11366
key.

1. Solve for the given plain text ”transposition” use the key “fancy”
and perform encryption & decryption using transposition CO1 K3 VTU11633
technique.
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2. It can be shown that if gcd(m,n) = 1 then o(mn) = o(m)*o(n). CO2 K3 VTU11640
Using this property determine the following values:
i) O(41) ii) O(27) iii) O(231) iv) O(440) VTU11658

1. Demonstrate railfence approach(transposition technique) to CO1 K3 VTU11674

encrypt & decrypt plaintext “defendtheeastwall” use key as 2.
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2. User Alice & Bob exchange the key using Diffie Hellman
algorithm, Illustrate for the given values: α=5, q=83. Find X A, XB, CO2 K3 VTU12184
YA, YB, K.
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 1. Sketch the components involved in DES round functions and CO1 K3
explain them. VTU12490

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2. Perform encryption and decryption using the RSA algorithm for the CO2 K3 VTU12527
given values: p=7; q=11; e=17; M=8.
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1. Illustrate various steps involved in AES with a neat diagram. CO1 K3 VTU12840

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2. Use Euler’s theorem to find a number a between 0 and 9 such that CO2 K3
a is congruent to 71000 modulo 10. VTU12861

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1. Encrypt the following using play fair cipher using the keyword
MONARCHY.“ SWARAJ IS MY BIRTH RIGHT”. Use X as blank CO1 K3
space. VTU13238

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2. Compare AES to DES. For each of the following elements of DES,
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indicate the comparable element in AES or explain why it is not CO2 K3
needed in AES. a) XOR of subkey material with the input to the f VTU14323
function. b) The f function c) Swapping of halves of the block d)
Permutation P.

1. Compare transposition cipher and substitution cipher. Apply two

stage transpositions Cipher on the “treat diagrams as single units” CO1 K3
using the keyword “sequence”. VTU14437

2. Consider a Diffie-Hellman scheme with a common prime q = 11 and VTU14440

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a primitive root of α= 2. CO2 K3
a) Show that 2 is a primitive root of 11. VTU14546
b) If user A has public key YA=9, what is A’s private key XA?
c) If user B has public key YB=3, what is the shared secret key K, VTU14600
shared with A?

1. Implement monoalphabetic substitution technique to encrypt & decrypt CO1 K3 VTU14650

the given plain text ”god save us all”.
A. Note: You have to frame plaintext and key mapping of your choice. VTU14747
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2.Perform encryption and decryption using the RSA algorithm for the CO2 K3 VTU14760
given values: p=5; q=11; e=3; M=9.
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 1. For the given plaintext ”efforts never die” perform polyalphabetic
encryption and decryption for the key “ideal”. Note: Ignore spaces in CO1 K3
plaintext. VTU15035

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14 2. Users A and B use the Diffie-Hellman key exchange technique with a
common prime q=71 and a primitive root α= 7. VTU15040
a) If user A has private key XA=5, what is A’s public key YA? CO2 K3
b) If user B has private key XB=12, what is B’s public key YB? VTU15089
c) What is the shared secret key?

1. Show the, implementation of Caesar cipher for the key value 4 for
encrypting and decrypting the plaintext “raju said to attack at dawn”. CO1 K3
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2. Perform Elliptic curve encryption / decryption using the scheme out.
The Cryptosystem parameters are E11(1,6) and G = (2,7). B’s secret key is VTU8672
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nB=7.
a) Find B’s public key PB. CO2 K3 VTU9100
b) A wishes to encrypt the message Pm=(10,9) and chooses the
random value k = 3. Determine the cipher text Cm. VTU9195
c) Show the calculation by which B recovers Pm from Cm.

1. Follow railfence approach(transposition technique) to encrypt & CO1 K3

decrypt plaintext “thisisasecretmessage” using key = 3. VTU9782
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2. Use Fermat’s theorem to find a number x between 0 and 72 with x CO2 K3
congruent to 9794 mod 73.
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