ONLINE Courses
Structure
of the Universe
Chaos
& Fractals
Codes, Ciphers and
Secret Messages
Session II
July 11 - July 23, 2004
Professor Carolyn Dean
Carolyn
Dean
Under Construction!
 Walter Dulany |
 Guy Grazier G'Sell |
Guy
and student Doug Reith
at opening reception
Guess who
can decipher the code?
Etienne working on a
binary code.
 Same code, Pam and Aaron. |
 A helpful suggestion. |
 Serious concentration (Brandon and Jessi). |
 Brian clicks. |
 Scott getting close. |
 Is that it? |
Not
everybody is getting into this stuff.
End of Session Activity:
Cryptic Lunch Meeting!
Students in the MMSS course on "Codes, Ciphers and
Secret Messages" spent the first week of our course
working with classical symmetric, private key cryptosystems
and are spending this week working with modern, asymmetric
public key cryptosystems. We've delved into the
mathematical background from probability and number theory.
Our course will culminate in a group lunch on Friday, July 25, at noon - if
the class and the course assistants Walter and Guy can decrypt
the location of the restaurant!
--- Carolyn Dean
Encrypted Lunch Invitation:
11110 10011 01010 00100 10100 10111 10110 01100
11001 00010 01101 10100 00100 11010 00100 00100
01110 11110 00101 10100 00100 01110 11110 00101
10100 01111 01000 01110 11111 10100 00110 00100
01100 11011 10111 00000 01101 11010 10100 01010
Proof
that they cracked the code!
Brian and Scott at Zingerman's
Contact us:
Carolyn Dean, Instructor
Guy Grazier G'Sell, Undergrad Assistant
Walter Dulany, Undergrad Assistant
Comments or suggestions? Write to the
MMSS Program Coordinator .
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