Chris Christensen


Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights
, KY 41099

859-572-6672
FAX: 859-572-6097

E-mail  christensen@nku.edu
 

HNR 304 - 002

This class meets TR 1:40 – 2:55 in HR 111.

Spring 2010

 

Here is a copy of the syllabus for HNR 304 - 002.

Here are ideas  for the short papers and the final project.

Amber Roger’s vbreaker.

 

Tuesday, January 12

            Simple substitution ciphers

            Hints for solving cryptograms.

Thursday, January 14

            Class will not meet.

Tuesday, January 19

            Kerckhoff's principles

            Keyword ciphers

Thursday, January 21

Tuesday, January 26

            Cipher

            The Goldbug by Poe.

            Ciphers using symbols.

Thursday, January 27

            Caesar ciphers

            Review of The Code Book by Simon Singh

Tuesday, February 2

            Digraph frequencies

            Playfair cipher

Thursday, February 4

            Cipher from "Have His Carcase."

Tuesday, February 9

            NKU closed due to weather problems.

Thursday, February 11

            Vigenère cipher cryptography

Tuesday, February 16

            NKU closed due to weather.

Thursday, February 18

            Vigenere cryptanalysis

Tuesday, February 23

            Friedman's index of coincidence

Thursday, February 25

            Gronsfeld and Beaufort ciphers

            Another way to find the length of the keyword

Tuesday, March 2

            No Class

Thursday, March 4

            Transposition ciphers

Tuesday, March 16

            Enigma and the bombe

Thursday, March 18

            Machine ciphers

            Dayton codebreakers  http://www.daytoncodebreakers.org/

Tuesday, March 22

            Cryptologic timeline

            ADFGVX cipher

Thursday, April 1

            Knapsack cipher

Tuesday, April 6

            KeeLoq

Thursday, April 8

Tuesday, April 13

            “America’s Most Secret Agency”

Thursday, April 15

            Presentation by Debbie (Desch) Anderson

Tuesday, April 20

            Presentation by Jerry Gonnella

Class presentations:

Thursday, April 22

                1:40 – 1:55  Alex

                2:00 – 2:15  Sylvia

                2:20 – 2:35  Mandy

                2:40 – 2:55 Codey

Tuesday, April 27

                1:40 – 1:55 Kevin

                2:00 – 2:15 Lacy

                2:20 – 2:35 Ryan

                2:40 – 2:55 Logan

Thursday, April 29

                1:40 -1:55 Kim and Megan

                2:00 – 2:15 Carly

                2:20 – 2:35 Conrad

                2:40 – 2:55 Ian