Lab 5

Venue : Makmal Sistem, Building FTMK.
Date : 27-8-2009
Time : 10.00 a.m. – 11.50 a.m.

The title for the lab session this week was Modern Cryptography (extended version). It continued from last week’s lab session actually. So after learning the RSA algorithm last week, this week we have learnt about DES algorithm. DES is a topic that we have learnt during the lecture last week; the difference is that we got to do DES practically this week.

After that, we were asked to do the review question. Luckily, Mr. Zaki guided us to do that, if not everyone will be fainted. We used Microsoft Office Excel to do the task and it was quite fun although the task is very complicated and quite frustrated sometimes. Before the lab session ended, Mr. Zaki told us for those who are interested in doing Final Year Project on this topic; we can let him know next semester. Developing an application to perform DES by using C++, vb .net or Java, sounds cool to me, I will consider it wisely… …