Demonstrate mastery of fundamental cryptography concepts.
Part 1 – Encrypt a Message
Purpose
The purpose of the assignment is to demonstrate mastery of fundamental cryptography concepts.
Instructions
Given the cipher-text KREUREIBCSTRTOPHLRESALUYWEYFRDCTTOOHWORA, which was encrypted with a columnar transposition cipher with secret key CYBERWAR, find the plain-text.
Deliverable
Submit a summary (Word or PDF format) including the following:
a) the plain text you discovered, and
b) an explanation of the process you used to uncover it.
Part 2 – Public-Private Key
Purpose
The purpose of the assignment is to demonstrate knowledge of the public key cryptography.
Instructions
Generate a public/private key pair and use the private key to encrypt the message “Hello Professor”. Use the tool and instruction at https://cryptotools.net/rsagen or any other key generator.
Deliverable
Submit the public key you generated and a file containing the encrypted message. Verify that decrypting this file with the public key returns the original message.
Requirements: 2 pages
Answer preview to demonstrate mastery of fundamental cryptography concepts.
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