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The document provides instructions for Lab 1 of the ECE646 course. Students are asked to complete two problems analyzing encrypted ciphertext using different classical ciphers in CrypTool 1. For Problem 1, the ciphertext was encrypted using 6 different ciphers but with the same plaintext. Students need to identify the ciphers and break at least 3 by finding the plaintext and keys. For Problem 2, the ciphertext uses 6 different ciphers and plaintexts. Students need to break at least 2 ciphers using ciphertext-only attacks. All work must be documented.

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Lab 1 F20

The document provides instructions for Lab 1 of the ECE646 course. Students are asked to complete two problems analyzing encrypted ciphertext using different classical ciphers in CrypTool 1. For Problem 1, the ciphertext was encrypted using 6 different ciphers but with the same plaintext. Students need to identify the ciphers and break at least 3 by finding the plaintext and keys. For Problem 2, the ciphertext uses 6 different ciphers and plaintexts. Students need to break at least 2 ciphers using ciphertext-only attacks. All work must be documented.

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ECE646 – Fall 2020

Lab 1: CrypTool – Historical Ciphers

Instruction
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY:

1. A PRIMARY LAB REPORT should be submitted using Blackboard by

Sunday, October 25, 11:59 PM.

2. Solutions to bonus tasks can be submitted by

Sunday, November 1, 11:59 PM.

BACKGROUND

Useful On-line Help:


• CrypTool – On-line Help
o Help => Starting page => Functionality of CrypTool => Document encryption =>
Symmetric (classic)
o Help => Starting page => Functionality of CrypTool => Analyzing Documents =>
Tools for Analysis and Symmetric Encryption (classic)
1. INSTALLATION

Install CrypTool 1 on your laptop or desktop at home. You can download CrypTool 1 from
https://www.cryptool.org/en/cryptool1

The recommended version of software is CrypTool 1 (CT1) ver. 1.4.41 - English.

2. RECOGNIZING AND BREAKING CIPHERS FOR THE SAME TEXT


ENCRYPTED USING DIFFERENT CIPHERS

Problem 1

Below please find 6 ciphertexts of the same message encrypted using the following
6 classical ciphers available in CrypTool 1: Caesar (shift cipher with k=3), Vigenere, Hill (with
d=3), Affine, Playfair, and Permutation. Do your best to match ciphertexts with a cipher that could
have been used to obtain a given ciphertext. If you are uncertain, you can list several ciphers per
each ciphertext.

Find the corresponding plaintext, by breaking the Caesar cipher, and then find the keys for at least
3 ciphers used to encrypt the now known plaintext. You will obtain extra points for any additional
cipher broken using known-plaintext attack. All attacks must be documented. Brute-force attacks
do not count.

Please note that spaces and punctuation characters have been removed before encryption.
The ciphertext has been divided into blocks of the size of 5 letters.

Ciphertext 1

IHDEA YOTTL IIETO SFSNE WLLTE MGLNR RSNWE PREOL GEEEO IAATS
NNMLU TAMEB NHOGA IUAOT EVETS IIEIO THIRT E

Ciphertext 2

ZRCPC WUUAQ CZRWV MMAAX WVILL UCCQW VMHIW LEPCU YAEIP CVAZZ
AUCCZ RIZVA OZWQC OWLLP CJCIL WZNCF IZWCV Z

Ciphertext 3

VCVIO DYQYD HQPLT GEATG UTRLK SJSUE ZBJDX MLAQM OCTXW LMCTE
NEGWH KRFGJ PUYUO GMLQV BDHFM ALUXW YGGNB YR

Ciphertext 4

CAOWR SHVHE LOCAN AOUER RCNAS KVBOV OLNAW TSNKV WOIVG XIGWS
GCCGB SGBIS FARGD ALORN MVPES EGSPS BCRLT KSRAF
Ciphertext 5

WKHUH LVVRP HWKLQ JJRRG LQDOO VHHPL QJIDL OXUHV BRXDU HQRWW
RVHHW KDWQR ZWLPH ZLOOU HYHDO LWEHS DWLHQ W

Ciphertext 6

IHXZI VUWDM XBLVP KVOHL MACPA SXMQV PKUAB TYEGW NONIV RPSIT
HAIRV LPTGW AGKQT WBTPE GZTAE QXOGT PTBMR G

3. RECOGNIZING AND BREAKING CIPHERS FOR DIFFERENT TEXTS


ENCRYPTED USING DIFFERENT CIPHERS

Problem 2

Below please find 6 ciphertexts of different messages encrypted using the following 6 classical
ciphers available in CrypTool: Caesar (shift cipher with k=3), Vigenere, Hill (with d=3), Affine,
Playfair, and Permutation. Do your best to match ciphertexts with a cipher that could have been
used to obtain the given ciphertext. If you are uncertain, you can list several ciphers per each
ciphertext.
Break at least 2 out of 6 ciphers. You will obtain extra points for any additional cipher broken
using ciphertext-only attack. All attacks must be documented. Brute-force attacks do not count.
Please note that spaces and punctuation characters have been removed before encryption.
The ciphertext has been divided into blocks of the size of 5 letters.

Ciphertext 1

WZUNA EUCMV TIJLK YVBMD SITKO AKVYU LBNLO AKVYU LAGYN GGXIU HTRFJ
HWXHU LLZPV EUWSU LVATN RQEWW OITAQ EUEGF LAYLB YGDXK LGGYN UUEEO
SGRLO TWXGK YWTPL LGN

Ciphertext 2

LDCCK NECIM IZSMG RBKCR UQKJV GKEEW KDZWU JVKFK IHDDM CKSDP EWIAR
NOWTS

Ciphertext 3

XUNUD ZRZQG UDXUX WHVAH HWXWB KOSIZ DUXWA TDXOF UNSZM FNRNZ GWWGZ
OOGXK VWGFV XUDFZ KYESN BNBFY VCDOC XZDWV

Ciphertext 4

EWNEA NWAPN RHOAE RCTDR WIOAS ATOOH NRASH LTDDA VNONE OOLNV GEEOA
Ciphertext 5

RFDNK FNDRI MNXFF NSIXK FNBEH MXIHB ALRXK WIMNA NUNFI DBKBE HMXIW
BNRKB IIMXI KNNWR TBANF BZAXV NIMXK HNTDV MIIMD KL

Ciphertext 6

WKHJU HDWHV WREVW DFOHW RGLVF RYHUB LVQRW LJQRU DQFHL WLVWK HLOOX
VLRQR INQRZ OHGJH

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