FTS-100: Secrets, Secret Codes, and Privacy
Fall 2005

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Homework  assignments


Due:
Assignment:
Oct. 31
Section 2.5, #1b, 2a, 3b, 4
Use a spreadsheet to help you do these problems; hand in copies of those parts of  your spreadsheet that you used to encipher or decipher a message.  Be sure that they are readable.

Section 2.6, # 4, 6b, 7b,10bdf, 11bdf
Be sure to write full sentences that tell me what your answer is and why.
Oct. 20
Section 2.3  homework
Section 2.4, #2,4,6
The message below was encoded using a simple columnar transposition.  Decode it.
HCEEW IHLIO MVTEO SMONE LDFAE CMSOR TSEEA NRAPI SDOMS ANIMN RHTST ATSYE E
Oct. 13
Problems 2bd, 3bf,5bd, 8, 10 in section 2.2 of Barr
Do problem 7 (section 2.2), but use the message (due to Stanley Kubrick):
GENTLEMEN! YOU CAN'T FIGHT IN HERE! THIS IS THE WAR ROOM!
Oct. 6
Problems 2,10,12, and 14 in section 2.1 of Barr
Supplementary problems (pdf)
Oct. 3
Problems 4 and 6 in section 1.2 of Barr (Note that  you should look at #5 in order to do 6.)
Two more problems  (pdf file)
Sept. 19
 Problems 4,10,12,14,20, 22 in section 1.1 of Barr

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