Project Cipher Club

Deadline: May 15, 2009

Rules

The first rule of Cipher Club is, you do not talk about Cipher Club.

The second rule of Cipher Club is, you DO NOT talk about Cipher Club. (You cannot consult with anyone outside your team.)

Third rule of Cipher Club: Any blunt object is allowed. (All written material is fair game for research, cf. next rule.)

Fourth rule: No downloaded code, no internet applets. Any code or program you use to solve ciphers must be written by your team.

Fifth rule: Only four guys to a team.

Sixth and final rule: If this is your first night at cipher club, you must solve a cipher.

The Teams

The winds of fate (or the man in this box), for good or ill, has scattered you into the following teams. Just as you each have been given an individual name by those who created you, they who placed you together have given collective names.

Team Superformation
Riley Abel
Scott Baker (Team Captain)
Ben Harris
Jody Shackford

Team Caterwauler
Jennifer Holt
Kjell Sawyer
Rebekah Smith (Team Captain)
Joe Waterbury

Team Lymphadenoma
James Broda
David Lamoureux
Monica McDalton (Team Captain)
Billy Smith

Task

Your team has two tasks:

Task 1 - Private Key Ciphers

Task 2 - Public Key Ciphers

Write-up

Each team must turn in a write-up, detailing how each code/problem was solved (or attempted if unsuccessful) and the decoded message. Assuming you used any code for this project, include the source code and and representative sample outputs.

Bonuses

The team to finish first will earn a bonus of 10 points.
The team to finish second will earn a bonus of 5 points.

The last team to break into my D2L account and change everyone's grades before I submit will get all A's. All other teams fail.


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