vigenere encryption engine for educational purposes

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Implementation of a Implementation of a Vigenere Encryption EngineVigenere Encryption Engine

for Educational Purposesfor Educational Purposes

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If he had anything confidential to say, he wrote it in cipher.

 Suetonius, Life of Julius Caesar

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Why was important for Julius Caesar mantain the confidential information … confidential?

He rules the world!!!!!

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● Julius Caesar developed the first complex method to cipher a message.

● XIV century: Blaise de Vigenère improve a cipher method described by Giovan Battista Bellaso, they improve the Julius Cesar's base cipher method.

● This method was considered impossible of broken until the end of XVIII century and at the beginning of XX century.

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● Now the Encryption is a very complex science, many people are using it, but is a very little of people understanding it, and a very very very little group that knows what happens inside a cipher method.

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The purpose of this work, recreate how the Vigenere Code works, following this guidelines:

● The programming language must be easy to understand.

● The final work should be possible to publish as a website.

● The work must propose some improvements to the base method.

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● The programming language selected is PHP.

● For a fast implementation of the website was used a CMS, punctually Drupal.

● Were implemented two improvements:● Add number into the cipher method● Add entropy in the matrices

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How the Vigenere Code (VC) works?● VC is form of

polyalphabetic substitutions.

● Works using a Matrix of characters and a Secret Password.

● The algorithm intersects the original Message with the Secret Password in the Matrix.

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How the Vigenere Code (VC) works?● VC is form of

polyalphabetic substitutions.

● Works using a Matrix of characters and a Secret Password.

● The algorithm intersects the original Message with the Secret Password in the Matrix.

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This is an example of the implementation of the VC using a common matrix (simple matrix).

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PROBLEM: what happened with the numbers?

The number are not encoded, then we have a part of the message that is open to the world after the encoded process.

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The first improvement: add numbers to the matrix.

This improvement creates a cipher message that covers numbers, if they are present in the original message.

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PROBLEM: somebody looks here some problem?

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PROBLEM: somebody looks here some problem?

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Patterns!!

find patterns in an encrypted message is the worst for a cipher message.

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Patterns!!

find patterns in an encrypted message is the worst for a cipher message.

Alan Turing spent a lot of time trying to decrypt the Enigma Machine, built a giant supercomputer for this work, he never could break the code, or did it very late.

Until one day …….

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Patterns!!

find patterns in an encrypted message is the worst for a cipher message.

He and his team discovers that the first phrase in every message was: “Heil Hitler”….. and the code was broken, Germany lost the Second World War.

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How to fix this problem in the Vigenere Code?How to fix this problem in the Vigenere Code?

Adding a Adding a Random Matrix.Random Matrix.

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Is impossible to break the code?

Certainly not, only adds more time to break the code. Doesn't exist an unbreakable code.

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All the work is ready to publish, currently is provided a virtual machine with all the tools to run a website in localhost mode.

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All the work is ready to publish, currently is provided a virtual machine with all the tools to run a website in localhost mode.

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All the work is ready to publish, currently is provided a virtual machine with all the tools to run a website in localhost mode.

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Thanks for your time!

Questions are welcome