Tuesday, September 15, 2015

3.8, 2.5-2.8 Due September 16th

1) I don't understand how the frequency analysis is usually successful for play fair ciphers because the blocks of two letters are two small.  Then for block ciphers, do you just pick a random matrix M to begin with?  I also can't remember how to take the determinant of a 3x3 matrix.  But I can look that up before class.  I am confused on the description of this whole cipher.  Binary numbers????
2) The play fair cipher was clever to me.  I like to see the creativity in all of the different cipher methods.  The story about Sherlock holmes was awesome and refreshing.

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