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PART3

First, I tried to install the pycryptodome package with the pip command. However, I
encountered an error because the environment was externally managed. The error message
suggested using apt to install the necessary package.
To solve this, I used the following command to install pycryptodome with apt:

I successfully installed the package, and the environment was ready to proceed.
Once the environment was ready, I created a Python script to decrypt the message. In the
script, I used the pycryptodome library to try each key from the provided key list. I did this by
writing a loop that went through each key and tried to decrypt the cipher text.

Then I created the decrypt_vigenere.py file using nano:

I wrote my code inside this file. With this code, I can decrypt the keys I have written.
In code:

First, I used the from itertools import cycle statement to import the cycle function. I
needed this to repeat the characters of the key continuously as I was decrypting the ciphertext.
The cycle function allows me to reuse the key over and over if it is shorter than the ciphertext.

Next, I created a function called decrypt_vigenere, which accepts two parameters: the
ciphertext (the message that needs to be decrypted) and the key (the key used for
decryption). Inside the function, I initialized an empty list decrypted_text where I would store
each decrypted character.

I used key_cycle = cycle(key) to make sure that even if the key is shorter than the
ciphertext, the characters of the key are repeated as needed.

Then, I looped through each character in the ciphertext using a for loop. For each
character, I checked if it was an alphabetic character using char.isalpha(). If it was, I
calculated the shift value using (ord(char) - ord(next(key_cycle))) % 26. This
calculates the difference between the ciphertext character and the corresponding character
in the key. The % 26 ensures the result stays within the range of the alphabet.

After calculating the shift, I converted it back into a letter using chr(shift + ord('a')) and
appended it to the decrypted_text list. If the character wasn't alphabetic, I just added it
directly without any changes.

Once all characters were processed, I joined the decrypted_text list into a single string
using ''.join(decrypted_text) and returned the final decrypted message.

In the main part of the program, I defined the ciphertext as "yrgzxeyiskmkxer". I then entered
a while True loop that keeps asking the user to input a key until they type 'exit'. For each key,
I passed it along with the ciphertext to the decrypt_vigenere function, and the decrypted
message was printed. If the user typed 'exit', the program printed a goodbye message and
stopped.

Then I run my written code.

It prompted me to enter a key. First, before entering the possible keys, I removed all the keys
containing numbers from the 10-million-line text file because the Vigenère cipher does not
include numbers, only letters.Then, by entering the remaining possible keys, I found the hidden
key, which turned out to be "adminaaa." After decrypting, the word "yourkeyishacker"
appeared. Once I found the meaningful word, I typed "exit" to stop the program. In this way, the
task was successfully completed.

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