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
 

Here is a copy of the syllabus for HNR 304.

Amber Roger’s vbreaker.

CryptTools by Don Spickler http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/despickler/personal/CryptTools.asp 

 

Here are ideas for short papers and projects.

 

Tuesday, 10 January

Simple substitution ciphers

Frequencies for English

 

Thursday, 12 January

Kerckhoffs' principles

Caesar ciphers

 

Tuesday, 17 January and Thursday, 19 January

Keyword ciphers

            Messages to break

 

Tuesday, 24 January

The Goldbug by Poe.

            Ciphers using symbols.

 

Thursday, 26 January and Tuesday, 31 January

            Messages to break

Playfair cipher

 

Thursday, 2 February

Cipher from "Have His Carcase."

 

Tuesday, 7 February

Vigenere cryptography

 

Thursday, 9 February

Vigenere cryptanalysis

            Friedman's index of coincidence

            Another way to find the length of the keyword

 

Tuesday, 14 February and Thursday, 16 February

Running key cipher

 

Tuesday, 21 February and Thursday, 23 February and Tuesday, 28 February

Transposition ciphers

More software  http://www.nku.edu/~cryptography/doku.php?id=downloads:downloads   Try cryptohelper.jar

 

Thursday, 1 March

            Enigma

 

Tuesday, 13 March

            Dayton Codebreakers

 

Thursday, 25 March

            JN-25

 

Tuesday, 20 March

            KeeLoq  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeeLoq

 

Thursday, 22 March

            Are you up to the NSA math challenge?

 

Tuesday, 27 March

            Jefferson cipher wheel, strip ciphers, etc.

 

Thursday, 29 March

            Jefferson cipher wheel problem and brief history of signals intelligence

 

Tuesday, 3 April

            “The Codebreakers” video.

 

Thursday, 5 April

            Class will not meet.

 

Tuesday, 10 April

            The Polish mathematician/codebreakers

 

Thursday, 12 April

            Ciphers to solve

 

Tuesday, 17 April

            Ciphers to solve

 

Thursday, 19 April

            Presentations

            Scottie Enigma and Food

            Daniel Simon Singh Cipher Challenge

            Lance   9/11 and the NSA

            Ellen Members of the NSA Hall of Honor

 

Tuesday, 24 April

            Presentations

            Abby and Alaina NSA and Echelon

            Jamison

            Laura

            Alaina R. Bletchley Park and Its People

 

Thursday, 26 April

            Presentations

            Nick and Robert An Enigma Software Program

            Clare Cryptology and Literature (Poe)

            Cory