Assignment 3 Cryptography

Submit a hard copy of assignment on coming Thursday.

There are some difficulties in the Assignment 3 of cryptography, hence some changes in the
previous assignment are as follows:

The previous question in which there was “sherlock holmes” and

“DOUGLAS” “BRISTLONE”, has been discarded. No need to attempt
that question.

Attempt the remaining 3 question of previous assignment, in addition to

below mentioned.

More questions are:

1. Construct a playfair matrix with the key “largest”

2. Construct the playfair matrix with the key “occurence”. Make a reasonable assumption
about how to treat redundant letters in the key.

3. Using the playfair matrix

M F H I/J K
U N O P Q
Z V W X Y
E L A R G
D S T B C

ENCRYPT the message:

“Must see you over Cadogan west. Coming at once”.

4. Using the vigenere cipher, encrypt the word “explanation” using the key leg

Hint regarding decryption question that was full of

symbols and numbers:
You dont need to decrypt the message. Just need to tell/map what symbol is used
for what character?
After decryption, the plaintext is given below.

Here is the plaintext:

A good glass in the Bishop's hostel in the Devil's seat—twenty-one degrees and
thirteen minutes—northeast and by north—main branch seventh limb east side—
shoot from the left eye of the death's head— a bee line from the tree through the
shot fifty feet out.