Computer Science Week 4 – Assignment: Using AES

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Assignment Directions

This assignment assesses CO-4. [content page]

For this assignment, you will use an online AES tool to encrypt and decrypt messages.

Navigate to the Online AES Encryption and Decryption Tool [webpage]
Type in the box: “I want to get an “A” in this course to ensure I have a good GPA upon graduation.”
Select ECB.
Choose the 128-bit key size
Enter the secret key “aesEncryptionKey” WITHOUT the quotation marks.
Choose base64 as the output text format.
Click encrypt and copy and paste the encrypted message into a Word document.
Enter the encrypted message into the box.
Select input text format Base64.
Key size in bits select 128.
Enter the secret key of “aesEncryptionKey” WITHOUT the quotation marks.
Click decrypt and copy and paste the answer into the same Word document.

A Word document that contains the encrypt and decrypt results from steps 7 and 12 above.

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