Ciphers and Other fun Things

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Ciphers and Other fun Things

• By Mavis Mather

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Outline

• Problem
• Background
• Approach
• Task List
• Gantt Chart

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Problem

• Why Ciphers are important
• Government usage
• What I plan to accomplish
• A mathematical approach

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Background

• Mathematics
• Stream Ciphers
• Definition
• Example One-time Pad
• Block Ciphers
• Definition
• Example DES

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Approach

• Research Various types of Mathematics
• Learn more about DES and RSA
• Find what goes into making a good cipher
• Strength
• Keyspace
• Apply Mathematics to my findings to create a new
  cipher.

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Task List

• Study Stream Ciphers
• Study Block Ciphers
• Research various maths
• Study DES
• Study RSA
• Compile a list whats in a good cipher
• Implementation of Maths into ciphers
• Evaluate and revise Cipher

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Gantt Chart
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Questions?