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Individual Research Project Section 5.8

September 29, 2015July 8, 2015 by elaine

Project 5.13

Prepare an exhibit on cryptography. Include devices or charts for writing and deciphering codes, coded messages, and illustrations of famous codes from history. For example, codes are found in literature in Before the Curtain Falls, by J. Rives … See the whole entry

Categories Chapter 05, Individual Research Projects Tags Codes, Cryptography

Video Links 5-8

August 11, 2015July 8, 2015 by elaine

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Cryptography (time: 3:02)
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Reference Topics 5-8

May 20, 2024July 8, 2015 by elaine

This site makes a transition from the modular arithmetic (of the last section) to writing secret codes (of this section). A Caesar cipher is a secret code in which each letter in the plain text is replaced by a letter … See the whole entry

Categories Chapter 05, Reference Topics Tags Caesar cipher, Cryptography, Decoding, Encoding

Section 5.8: Cryptography

September 24, 2015July 8, 2015 by elaine

5.8 Outline

  1. Definition
  2. Simple codes
  3. Modular codes
    1. definition
    2. encrypt
    3. encoding key
    4. ciphertext
    5. decoding key
  4. Unbreakable codes

 

5.8 Essential Ideas

Cryptography is the art of writing or deciphering messages in code. This is an applied section which uses essential ideas … See the whole entry

Categories Chapter 05, Essential Ideas Tags Ciphertext, Cryptography, Decoding, Encoding, Modular codes, Simple codes
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