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Practice For Quiz 1 - Winter 2009 - March 6, 2009

The document contains 9 practice problems for a cryptography quiz involving different cipher techniques: 1) Decrypt a Vigenere cipher with keyword "NEVER" 2) Decrypt a Playfair cipher with keyword "SCRAMBLED EGGS AND TOAST" 3) Determine the key and message of a homophonic cipher where the 4th letter is D

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Practice For Quiz 1 - Winter 2009 - March 6, 2009

The document contains 9 practice problems for a cryptography quiz involving different cipher techniques: 1) Decrypt a Vigenere cipher with keyword "NEVER" 2) Decrypt a Playfair cipher with keyword "SCRAMBLED EGGS AND TOAST" 3) Determine the key and message of a homophonic cipher where the 4th letter is D

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Practice for quiz 1 – Winter 2009 – March 6, 2009

1. Decrypt the following message given that it was encrypted with the Vigenere cipher
system with a keyword : NEVER

vxhep oimsl tlgcr fwzvk rh

2. The following message was encrypted using the Playfair cipher system with a keyword
of SCRAMBLED EGGS AND TOAST. Find the corresponding English message.

az qk fi hi su rn ob kc fp ft dp bp hu fk

3. A message was sent using the homophonic cipher system. Say that you manage to
learn that the fourth letter of this message is D. What is the key and the original
Message?

66-45-100-73-17 25-100-36 75-10-45-66-8-96-51 13-78-77 55-92-54-4

88-12-35-42-36-76-17 53-57-50-13 25 46-84-14-88-48 72-19-59

4. The following is a Ceasar encryption. Decipher it.

esp xpd dlr ptd dpn cpe

5. Decipher the following message

mvgkvzgzgkvvqffisthbsp

knowing that it is Vigenere encrypted with a 2-letter key.

6. Decipher the following message

naser eweoe noepr dlyni vasn

knowing that it is a rectangular transposition with the word airplanes occurring in it.

7. Decipher the following message knowing that it is a Vigenere encryption with a 2-letter keyword

KDSEN ZCRDV BISSV VDYSE QKYCY FCV

8. Decrypt the following message knowing that it is a Playfair encryption with keyword
"SOUTH PACIFIC"

US OU LR QZ ZO IO CA CQ UK DM PY GD GN NX

9. Decipher the following message knowing that it is a message encrypted using rectangular
transposition and the key "ROLLINGSTONES"
YAOUD TTNAH AHCEI UTOIT CWUMM

NAASG AWSON OEYTS WUYYI YGTEU

AYTNT SNMJY LORDF

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