Question: Decrypt the following message that was encrypted using a simple substitution cipher. The plaintext has no spaces or punctuation. ( warning: there may be the
Decrypt the following message that was encrypted using a simple substitution cipher. The
plaintext has no spaces or punctuation. warning: there may be the odd transmission error
Submit the plaintext answer and key, along with an explanation on how you solved the
problem and all source code that you developed use Java, C or Python to help you arrive
at your answer. The cyphertext is as follows:
PBFPVYFBQXZTYFPBFEQJHDXXQVAPTPQJKTOYQWIPBVWLXTOXBTFXQWA
XBVCXQWAXFQJVWLEQNTOZQGGQLFXQWAKVWLXQWAEBIPBFXQVXGTVJV
WLBTPQWAEBFPBFHCVLXBQUFEVWLXGDPEQVPQGVPPBFTIXPFHXZHVFAG
FOTHFEFBQUFTDHZBQPOTHXTYFTODXQHFTDPTOGHFQPBQWAQJJTODXQH
FOQPWTBDHHIXQVAPBFZQHCFWPFHPBFIPBQWKFABVYYDZBOTHPBQPQJT
QOTOGHFQAPBFEQJHDXXQVAVXEBQPEFZBVFOJIWFFACFCCFHQWAUVWFL
QHGFXVAFXQHFUFHILTTAVWAFFAWTEVOITDHFHFQAITIXPFHXAFQHEFZ
QWGFLVWPTOFFA
Note, that you will need to write your own code to decrypt the message. Using code or
websites available on the Internet or other places to decrypt the message is not allowed.
Instead, you should use a large English text corpus from, for example, Wikipedia and do a
character frequency analysis on the data as was described in class. Your code should
remove spaces, punctuation, and nonalphabetic characters and convert the remaining
characters to upper case. Then, your code should do a character frequency analysis on the
ciphertext. Feel fee to do the code in C java or python,
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