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8.9. EXERCISES 157<br />

6. As is this one:<br />

KHVBH FXPSP NMJET MGXWF RLIEN OGMOO TRHRV ADUJH KSOGN WXKSU IFYYT<br />

XVVRR HTSTF HYNZF KZVCS FJGAC UIPIG GBAML FCZGN LEWVC HWXVV UHNWX<br />

KLCHV OUJCU HRVLV UWWER HXWGQ ENWPA GFRRH KLGVN WXJSH HBXFR VISNW<br />

ODFGF BOCEH KJVMO RPUWG LILPF PRLID TTCZR MVHCH RJWYI PUNPY DIPHV<br />

WQYME VBWYF VCBBC BVVQT GQYDX QCXYU IX<br />

7. Encipher or decipher the following texts using a Vigenére cipher with two<br />

keywords.<br />

(a) Encipher Peter Piper picked a peck using the keywords JACK and<br />

SPRATT.<br />

(b) Decipher FDUAP XNQHJ LCWOI UIOHF BEUDN C using the keywords<br />

LIZARD and CRAWL.<br />

(c) Encipher I need to laugh, and when the sun is out using the<br />

keywords Sun and shine.<br />

(d) Decipher RJQMU FJRQV HIRBS OIMEO ELUIJ PAAZ using keywords Good<br />

and day.<br />

8. Matteo Argenti used the keyword Key PIETRO and a slightly mixed alphabet<br />

to make a Vigenère cipher:<br />

cipher<br />

plain1<br />

plain2<br />

plain3<br />

plain4<br />

plain5<br />

plain6<br />

HI LMNOPRSTABCDE FGU<br />

p r s t u a b c d e f g h i l m n o<br />

i l m n o p r s t u a b c d e f g h<br />

e f g h i l mnop r s t u a b c d<br />

t u a b c d e f gh i l mn o p r s<br />

r s t u a b c d e f g h i l m n o p<br />

o p r s t u a b c d e f g h i l mn<br />

To encipher, find the first letter <strong>of</strong> plaintext in the first plaintext alphabet,<br />

and replace it by the ciphertext letter above it. The second plaintext<br />

alphabet is used for the second letter, the third for the third, etc. For<br />

example peter becomes HECPH.<br />

Decipher LHUAP AHEAN SLMNG TSUUM BPAOT PEBNC NEALP HGSAE MAGEC<br />

ANUD.<br />

9. If we are using a double Vigenère, does it matter in which order we use<br />

the keywords Explain.<br />

10. The “Double Vigenère” we discussed in the chapter used two keywords to<br />

encipher a message twice. A different and better way to do this is to use<br />

the first key to mix the cipheralphabet and the second key as a Vigenère<br />

keyword using the newly mixed cipheralphabet (much like PIETRO was<br />

used in exercise 8.8).

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