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juddin22 ebec786840 Writing code helped me understand the problem better 
because I could actually test what was happening instead of just guessing.
It made it easier to see how encryption and decryption work step by step,
and I could quickly fix mistakes when something didn’t work.

I had trouble finding the secret word at first because I was only getting
numbers when I calculated the shifts. I couldn’t turn that into a readable word,
so I used the secret word provided by the professor instead. Then I used
 that word in PolyCipher to decrypt the message and check that it worked.
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Encryption lab answers

Checkpoint 1

  1. secrets/secret0.txt is encrypted using a Caesar Cipher. What is its secret number?

The number is 78.

  1. secrets/secret1.txt is encrypted using a Caesar Cipher. What is its secret number?

The number is 1.

  1. secrets/secret2.txt is encrypted using a Caesar Cipher. What is its secret number?

The number is 44.

  1. secrets/secret3.txt is encrypted using a Caesar Cipher. What is its secret number?

The number is 59.

  1. secrets/secret4.txt is encrypted using a Caesar Cipher. What is its secret number?

The number is 32.

Checkpoint 2

  1. What is the polyalphabetic secret word?

The secret word is "PYTHON".

  1. Decrypt this message, which was encrypted using the same secret word: "EbZhdaV[h^bTpchhQnhig]X[VmhhRP]ftXVnRfjVY]fgtO_X]("

The decrypt message is "The treasure is a worthless ball of aluminum foil."

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