Cryptology, Binary and ASCII codes Graded Lab
First, each student will pretend that he/she has been involved in some
criminal
activity and the goal would be to hide some information.
Each student will choose the sentence
that consists of 3 words. This sentence should be encrypted or/and
encoded so it would be difficult to get information.
To encrypt and/or encode the sentence, you can use all ciphers and
codes that we learned so far.
Be creative! You can use a series of chiphers and codes. You can
combine ASCII and Binary coding with the ciphers we learned so far.
For example, if my original word is dog
- First, I can encrypt it using Caesar Cipher and the result will be
GRJ and after that I will encrypt GRJ using Polybius cipher and the final
ciphertext will be : 224224
- To decrypt, first I would need to use Polybius cipher to get GRJ and
after that Caesar Cipher to get an original text dog
After the encryption/coding is done, students will
exchange information (the same way we did it for the previous lab).
At that point, you will pretend that you are forensic specialist
and you would need to find the original message.
We will limit the amount of ciphers/codes that you can use for
encryption to 3.
Grading Requirements:
- The sentence must have 3 words
- Each word must be encrypted in different way.
- Each word must be encrypted using at least 2 different ciphers/codes
- You have to use ALL ciphers and codes that we learned so far: Binary,
ASCII, Caesar, Shift and Polybius
- Each student should
document the
encryption and
decryption process on the paper.
- You can use
computer to do encryption/decryption and encoding/decoding, BUT you have
to explain IN DETAIL how ciphers are working
for at
least ONE word of your choice. You don't need to explain Binary/ASCII in
detail.