Cipher Challenge - Cryptography Tutorial

Solve the Cipher Challenge

  
Cryptography >  Cipher Challenge (60+ min.)       
 
Objectives:

1) Demonstrate your mastery of the learned Ciphers by breaking them.

2) Win a prize by solving the cipher challenge. 

 

 

 

 

 

 


The Cipher Challenge

Break the following 8 ciphers and email your answer to nhahnfeld@antilles.vi to receive a prize.   

 

The Ciphers to be broken Help on Breaking a Cipher: 
 

Cipher #1:   Caesar Cipher

"xtvavbiaxkzboxlrhnt phkwaxkxbmblbgmxzkte"

How to break the Caesar Cipher 
 

Cipher #2:   Multiplication Cipher

"secadqzegnyydqalse cdkedzgunekfeyadglpw"

How to break the Multiplication Cipher
 

Cipher #3:   Linear Cipher

"hkllkxrxkqskvwmkefkhjl cpxkialfmewmjfkxlfkgcx
dmelxmycvcoklxu"

How to break the Linear Cipher
 

Cipher #4:   Rail Fence Cipher

"hwohinirocywimtaanelcpituooseol yerfehssrurnrrfdtaeceneerduas"

How to break the Rail Fence Cipher
 

Cipher #5:  Atbash Cipher

"mldrgtvghzorggovnlivgirxp bblfidliwrhvcklmvmg"

How to break the Atbash Cipher
 

Cipher #6:   A Transposition Cipher

"evitavireditnasidrowruoysd rawkcabdaernacuoywonkuoydid"

How to break a Transposition Cipher
 

Cipher #7:   RSA Cipher The public encoding key is (e,m) = (5,35).

"19 14 20 12 22 14 12 33 7 9 12 9 8 23 16 14 33 9 7 8 "

How RSA Cipher works

How to break it

 

Cipher #8:   Monoalphabetic Substitution Cipher

"TBQ QRM JY LQGOBQM TBQ IGYT SVLM JY YJKUG TBQ CJLYT IQTTQLY OVUFJRQM PJQIM TBQ GRYSQL SVLM" 

How to break the Monoalphabetic Cipher

 

 

 

 

 

Related web sources:

Cipher Challenge posed by the Code Book author Simon Singh

Encarta.com

Yahoo's Encryption & Security

Glossary

PBS Online

Introduction to Cryptography

Enigma and the Codebreakers

Enigma History

Enigma Emulator

 

 

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