Introduction To Cryptography

Programs

Useful links:

• M187 Home Page
• Handouts

• Let's Make A Deal - Explanation of the Monty Hall paradox.
• Let's Make a Deal II - Experimental resolution of the paradox: the importance of knowing.
• Monkey Words - Generate random "text".
• Entropy - An experiment to calculate the entropy of the English language.
• Vigenere - A program that can encrypt/decrypt/break Vigenere encrypted messages.
• Rectangular Transposition - A program that can encrypt/decrypt/break rectangular transposition encrypted messages
• Monoalphabetic Substitution - A program that can encrypt/decrypt/break monoalphabetic encrypted messages
• Monoalphabetic Substitution/Metropolis algorithm – A program that can encrypt/break monoalphabetic encrypted messages using the Metropolis algorithm

· Roulette Wheel

· Plinko

· Canonical Roulette

These programs are written in Java: you cannot use them with an antique browser.

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