On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 03:28:44PM -0800, Natalie Kristine T. Castillo wrote: > Hi, I need help on how exactly to solve this: > > To send secret messages you and your partner have decided to use the > columnar function you have written to perform columnar transposition > cipher for this course. You have received the ciphertext > EXLYHILOSHOOAETU from your friend. You two decide to use the keyword > MARS. What message did your friend send you? Show your steps and do it > by hand.
This link might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_cipher#Columnar_transposition Otherwise, this isn't exactly on-topic for a Python list, particularly since you're told to do it by hand. But in case anyone is interested: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/obfuscate Good luck :) -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
