ITE403 – Information Security

Lab T-1: Working With Ciphers

Student Name: ____________________________________________

Student No.: |__|__|--|__|__|__|__|__|

Date of Lab: _________/ __________/ 2020 Marks (or PASS/FAIL): __________

Day Month

Objective
• To Demonstrate the use of Ciphers

Background
You have so far learned about Cipher methods and how they impact security and coding of
information that you want to protect. This lab exercise helps consolidate those skills by
allowing you to exercise judgment, and devise ways for encryption.

Tools/Equipment

There are no tools needed for this lab.

Activity
1. Use the following key to decrypt the message given:

Encrypted Message:

AIQ UZT EIV YVQM TVA XQZY KVVDM IZM TV ZYOZTAZNQ

VOQX AIQ UZT AIZA LZT TVA TVA XQZY AIQU. – UZXD AEZFT

2. Decrypt the following using the key given above:

FZUIGUZTTVAITNIGUZTFMZCFQTAVUQ
3. Use the Vigenere Cipher Method with password READER to re-encrypt the message in
Question 2 above. Use the Vigenere square from the previous Worksheet exercise.

a. What do you notice about the encoding methods in terms of ease of

deciphering?

b. Which of the two methods would offer most protection, and why?

4. Use the instructions below to dencrypt the following message:

WNNRFREONIODWHIFLEIONWLRLPGEOSLETDWFHOHOHUAFENILVWWOSLEIATOY

a. Use a 10-x 6 matrix to decode the message.

b. What transposition cipher method is this?

Graded: ____________/ ________________/ 20 _____

Returned: ____________/ ________________/ 20_____

May 7, 2020