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Description: This project is to use different encrypted messages as clues to find the missing cow. We are required to create code to decrypt the secret message and locate the cow to win a prize.
Description: This project is to use different encrypted messages as clues to find the missing cow. We are required to create code to decrypt the secret message and locate the cow to win a prize.
Procedure: First, we watched a video, introducing the concept of Caesar Cipher. After watching, we learned how to code a simple Caesar Cipher encryption code with one key, in which we experienced trial and error and also learned how to make the list infinite by looping back to the beginning of the list (of letters) using the %26. Then, we made a decryption function to decrypt the encrypted message by subtracting the key instead of adding. We proceeded to make the Caesar Cipher code more difficult by giving each character a unique key. We started with 10 digit keys, and then we went onto any key. We did this by taking a long string of numbers and separating each number then putting into a list. We also used %len(thelist) to make the key flip over to the next characters to make it encrypt everything and not go over the list length. Next, we also made a decryption code for it. Then, we were given a challenge: to find the missing cow using 5 encrypted messages as clues. We used our previous knowledge and created some functions to decrypt the message by trying out all the possibilities.
Procedure: First, we watched a video, introducing the concept of Caesar Cipher. After watching, we learned how to code a simple Caesar Cipher encryption code with one key, in which we experienced trial and error and also learned how to make the list infinite by looping back to the beginning of the list (of letters) using the %26. Then, we made a decryption function to decrypt the encrypted message by subtracting the key instead of adding. We proceeded to make the Caesar Cipher code more difficult by giving each character a unique key. We started with 10 digit keys, and then we went onto any key. We did this by taking a long string of numbers and separating each number then putting into a list. We also used %len(thelist) to make the key flip over to the next characters to make it encrypt everything and not go over the list length. Next, we also made a decryption code for it. Then, we were given a challenge: to find the missing cow using 5 encrypted messages as clues. We used our previous knowledge and created some functions to decrypt the message by trying out all the possibilities.
Encrypted Key: 1-5
Hmaly zllpun aol ovvm wypuaz vu aol mvvaihss mplsk, Tz. Ayhu ruvdz oly jvd ohz nvul tpzzpun! Zol pz whupjrpun! Jhu fvb olsw nla aol jvd ihjr?
The zhpk aoha dolu ol dhz kyvwwlk vmm aopz tvyupun, ol zhd aol jvd dpao zvtl QO rpkz lhapun tpua jhukf ulhy aol Jbl Xbhk.
Awumwvm umvbqwvml ammqvo Ua. Sqvo nqtt bpm jwet eqbp uqvb kivlqma bpqa uwzvqvo.
J bcdmnwc oxdwm j vrwc fajyyna wnja cqn bwjlt bqjlt frcq j blarkkunm wxcn: ljuu vn jc 650806
Tt wnk zbxrj bhk jwf. Ib cjssnj tw Sb. Bgscpef’z xlkike cv pky katmf, zmev nduo uzt woco cnj RH tplb.
Decrypted Key: 1-5
Ms. Tran saw hoof prints by the back of the science classroom. She is panicking because her cow has gone missing!
Max said that when he was dropped off this morning, he saw the cow with some JH kids eating mint candy near the Cue Quad.
Someone mentioned seeing Ms. King fill the bowl with mint candies this morning.
A student found a mint wrapper near the snack shack with a scribbled note: call me at 650806
SOUL Reflection -
S - I think my code for the Caesar's Cipher worked well
O - I think some of the coding for google collab did not work well
U - I learned that I always need to look for mistakes in my code, especially when I have to narrow the answer down to one sentence.
L - Nothing prevented me from having a successful project
WISCR - I think I was really self motivated and that prevented me from giving up. I also think for both me and Ilinca, the code that was already there helped both of us to think critically when finding mistakes in the decryption and encryption.
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