Evening all,
I have just began my final year at university and am studying cryptography. We have just been set the first assignment just 3 weeks in so I'm assuming it won't be a case of breaking the enigma code.
As part of the assignment there are 7 exercises with 2 further challenges consisting of various ciphers (Caesar, Vigenere, Transposition and general Substitution). I'd like to code some sort of application to be able to decrypt these ciphers.
I don't want to cheat, im genuinely interested in the topic and feel by coding an application to decrypt the codes I'd get more out of the assignment, having to think logically about resolving each.
I'd like to think i'm reasonably competent in Java, VB and or Javascript/HTML/CSS. So any of these platforms I'm happy to try with.
If anybody can advise any pointers I'd be grateful.
Many thanks Gary