{"id":147,"date":"2010-09-16T11:06:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derekbruff.com\/site\/fywscrypto\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-09-16T11:06:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T16:06:51","slug":"reading-questions-for-september-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/2010\/09\/16\/reading-questions-for-september-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Questions for September 21st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for class on <strong>Tuesday, September 21st<\/strong>, please read pages 63 to 78 in the second chapter in the Simon Singh book and respond to the following questions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Prior to the work of Babbage and Kisiki, \u201cmost cryptanalysts had  given up all hope of ever breaking the Vigen\u00e8re cipher.\u201d\u00a0 Given that the  Vigen\u00e8re cipher was well-known, what might lead a cryptanalyst of that  time to give up hope in cracking it?<\/li>\n<li>If the rows of the Vigen\u00e8re square Singh uses (p. 48) were not  shifts of the standard alphabet but were instead other arrangements of  the standard alphabet (such as keyword cipher alphabets or keyword  columnar cipher alphabet), how would that impact Babbage\u2019s cryptanalysis  technique?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for class on Tuesday, September 21st, please read pages 63 to 78 in the second chapter in the Simon Singh book and respond to the following questions. Prior to the work of Babbage and Kisiki, \u201cmost cryptanalysts had given up all hope of ever breaking the Vigen\u00e8re cipher.\u201d\u00a0 Given that the Vigen\u00e8re cipher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-qs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derekbruff.org\/blogs\/fywscrypto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}