Editing Cipher cracking 2011 weekly progress (section)

=== Semester 2 Week 9===
====Steven====
# Week 9 work:
#* Work for Cipher GUI:
#** Modification of Cipher GUI postponed to ensure there are no conflicting versions with the updates Patrick plans to make
#* Work for web crawler/pattern matcher:
#** Met with Patrick and reviewed the web crawler GUI
#** Continued integrating the web crawler and pattern matching software into the GUI frontend
#** Reconfigured web crawler and pattern matching programs for improved user operation and feedback
#** Added the ability to select exact and initial pattern definitions into the web crawler GUI
#** Reviewed the blekko analysis tool highlighted by Matthew and concluded a submission would not be made. The major factors were the inability to control the web crawl and uncertainty as to whether our submission would be used. 
#** Formulated regular expressions initially for use with blekko analysis tool. Now will be used with the additional pattern matching functionality that Patrick is developing.
#* Management and documentation:
#** Attended a meeting with Derek and Patrick and summarised the progress to date. Plans for the final seminar were also discussed.
#** Commenced work on presentation for final seminar (30/09/11)
# Goals for "break":
#* Week 1 (final seminar 30/09/11)
#** Continue compilation of final seminar presentation
#** Present the final seminar on Friday 30/09/11
#** Complete integration of web crawler, pattern matcher and graphical user interface
#** Update web crawler graphical user interface to include regular expression functionality
#** Any further software modifications that are required for the demonstration component of the final seminar
#* Week 2 (final seminar complete)
#** Meet with Patrick and review all work required for project closeout
#** Begin poster(s) for the final exhibition (28/10/11)
#** Plan project video – acquire all additional resources
#** Work with Patrick to establish how our software can be deployed on the project wiki
#** Continue final report (submission 21/10/11)

====Patrick====
# Work Done this Week
#* Cipher Cross-off List
#** Ruled out Flat Frequency Response ciphers from being used in creating the code - done via statistics. Proof is [[Cipher_Cross-off_List#Flat Frequency Ciphers|here.]]
#*** This rules out both the [[Cipher_Cross-off_List#One Time Pad|One Time Pad]] and [[Cipher_Cross-off_List#Homophonic Substitution Ciphers|Homophonic Substitution Ciphers.]]
#** Identified what sort of Keyword could have been used if the [[Cipher_Cross-off_List#Keyword Cipher|Keyword Cipher]] was used to create the code.
#* Cipher GUI work:
#** Added Substitution Cipher that lets the user pick their own Cipher Alphabet.
#** Improved Keyword Cipher by added a JTable that displays the current Cipher Alphabet according to the user-entered keyword.
#** Improved Playfair Cipher by addinga Table that shows the Playfair square. The table updates when the Keyword is changed by the user.
#** Added the unique center panel for the Caesar Cipher.
#* Web Crawler/Pattern Matcher work:
#** Discussed the Crawler GUI setup with Steve who is working on the integration into the GUI
#** Investigated Regular Expressions (regexs) for the purpose of using them for a crawl on ''blekko's'' web data as identified last week
#*** Identified Regexs that could successfully match to Initial Letters and character patterns
#*** Decided that ''blekko'' wouldn't be much help since they aren't providing the option to run a web crawl, they are just offering to run two crawls a day themselves.
#*** However these regexs have given me an idea and the production of an additional Pattern Matching feature is under way! A Regex option - crawl the web for a regex of your choice.
#* Project Management work:
#** Had a meeting with Steve and Derek. Addressed progress on work to date, and discussed plans for the final seminar coming up.
#** Began planning on the content of the Final Seminar.
# Goals for Next Fortnight
#* Week 1
#** Work on the Final Seminar
#** More work on the Final Seminar
#** Even More work on the Final Seminar! Present the Seminar on Friday.
#** Look into recording our Seminar so Derek (who is overseas) can watch it.
#** Implement a Regular Expression Pattern Matching option in the web crawler.
#** Do whatever other final touches are needed for the Web Crawler/Pattern Matcher and Cipher GUI for the Final Seminar's Demonstration section.
#* Week 2 (Seminar over)
#** Meet with Steven to identify work still needed to finish off the project - review progress on the Gantt Chart
#** Begin work on the Poster(s) for the Project Exhibition.
#** Begin planning our project Video
#** Look into how we can host our software on the internet