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Fall 2021 0688566: Data Security and Cryptography H.

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ELEC 8660: Data Security and Cryptography, Fall 2021


Assignment One (Due: 10pm, Wednesday, Oct 6, 2021)

Requirements:

• Organize your assignment solution into one single file in Microsoft Word or PDF format
(including PDF generated from scanning);

• Submission must be conducted through Blackboard website.

1. (20 marks) The following ciphertext was encryption of an English sentence using a shift cipher:

ERETTPIEHECOIITWXLIHSGXSVEAEC.

Find the original sentence.

2. (20 marks) Encrypt the following plaintext using the affine cipher with key (a, b) = (5, 8) and
obtain the ciphertext.
Knowledge is power

3. (20 marks) Let the encryption keyword of a monoalphabetic cipher be CODE. Obtain ciphertext
for message sentence:
Knowledge is power

4. (20 marks) Let the encryption keyword of a Vigenere cipher be CODE. Obtain ciphertext for
message sentence:
Knowledge is power

5. (20 marks) Let the encryption key-phrase of a playfair cipher be CODE WORD. Obtain the
encryption key and the ciphertext for message sentence:

Knowledge is power

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