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🎓 2nd year Data Structures and Algorithms project. Application takes in a file and encrypts it using the Four Square Cipher. The file is first "put" into one massive string. This string is then split into bigrams. The first letter and second letter of this bigram are "encrypted" seperately. The encrypted file can then be decrypted. The applicati…
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DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS ASSIGNMENT - "RAPID ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION USING THE FOURSQUARE CIPHER" ======================================================================================================= Student: Kevin Niland Student number: G00342279 For my project, I have decided to use for loops to encrypt and decrypt the file. The project utilises four different classes: FileHandler, FourSquareCipherNestedFor, Menu, and Runner. While for loops aren't the most efficient way of doing this project, they are very simple to implement. FileHandler reads in the file, adds the file to a String list, removes all spaces, commas, etc. and replaces any J's with I's, converts the characters to uppercase and converts it to a character array. It does this for both the pre encrypted file and the encrypted file. FourSquareCipherNestedFor takes in the file and splits it into bigrams, as per the project spec. It then encrypts/decrypts the file using nested for loops and adds the encryption to a list. Menu creates a primitve UI that the user can interact with. It allows the user to encypt and decrypt a file, and quit out of the program. Runner creates a Menu object and calls it. N.B ==== To measure the time taken, I have included a measuring system in the Menu class in each of the cases. However, I have noticed the amount of time taken increases the more I encrypt and decrypt. Therefore, I have included a commented method of measuring the time taken. This is incase I have measured the time taken incorrectly in the Menu class. If you have any trouble with running this project, please free to e-mail me: G00342279@gmit.ie
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🎓 2nd year Data Structures and Algorithms project. Application takes in a file and encrypts it using the Four Square Cipher. The file is first "put" into one massive string. This string is then split into bigrams. The first letter and second letter of this bigram are "encrypted" seperately. The encrypted file can then be decrypted. The applicati…
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