Question: System level programming Some cryptography and a little computer security You find an odd DeLorean parked around the corner. Realizing that Doc Brown has left
Some cryptography and a little computer security You find an odd DeLorean parked around the corner. Realizing that Doc Brown has left the keys in the ignition, you decide that a quick trip back to Rome in 40 BC is in order. A few mint condition coins, and possibly a picture of Vincengetorix will be highly remunerative. As usual, the car fails and you are stranded All is not lost, Julius Caesar recruits you for his secret service as a cryptographer. Falerian wine is palatable, you have acquired a taste for garum (don't ask), and there are more than enough other attractions to make your life comfortable. Fortunately, you have your laptop, running linx with a python interpreter, and by the use of lemon juice, copper denarii and silver sestarii you are able to rig up a battery to keep it running. 1. Write a program that takes a key (a number from1 to 26) an input file name, and an output file name from the command line and uses the key to encrypt it with a Caesar cipher. A Caesar cipher performs modular addition of the key and the letter. If the key is l then a->b, b->e., y->z, z-a. Ignore all the things that aren't the letters from a to z (simply pass them through) and you will want to put the letters into lower case. Use the file messagel.txt and a key of 7 to encrypt it. (You can do this one pretty easily in bash too 2. Cato and Junius Brutus are using the cipher to encrypt their communications. In Latin as well as that vulgar Geranic language Englisc the letter 'e' is the most common letter. 't is the second most common. Write a program to count the numbers of each letter in the message. (i.e. how common is each symbol) Then use that to find the key for the message Use the file ceaser1.txt for input
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