Week 1 - Discussion: Vigenère Cipher Analysis

 

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Discussion Prompt:

In this Discussion, research Vigenère Cipher. Use the Vigenère Table to encrypt the message using the key ORANGE:

Hard work always pays.

Now use the same key to decrypt this message:

Oktnio ok dncr 

Instructions:

• Ignore all cases and punctuations
• Do not encrypt or decrypt spaces
• Post your answers and explain your experience and why Vigenère is not acceptable as an algorithm in today’s computing environment 

Peer Reply Guidance:

Review at least two posts and help your classmates with suggestions if they are not successful. 

This Discussion aligns with the following:

• Course Objective: 1 [content page]