Editing Cipher cracking 2009 weekly progress (section)

=== Semester 1 Week 2===

====Denley====
*Wrote a simple text counter to count letter frequencies in a given text. George Orwell's 1984 had a frequency characteristic very similar to those given [http://pages.central.edu/emp/LintonT/classes/spring01/cryptography/letterfreq.html here] as general English letter frequencies
*Started playing with encoding decoding algorithms. Got Caesar cypher working. Will work on extending this to Vigenere soon
=====Short Term Goals=====
*Track down a copy of National Treasure 2 and rip the scene showing the use of the Playfair cypher
*Try some more eBooks in the frequency calculator and try to get an idea of if/how the English language changes over time and try other European languages too (as Somerton Man had a European look to him)

====Andrew====
=====This Week=====
#Contacted police museum and organised a meeting (time TBA) on thursday morning
#researched into railway station, hitting a dead end (cloak room supposedly no longer exists, couldnt find anything to prove this, so let it go)
#gravesite visit postponed, but have organised to use parents' video camera
#train trip irrelevant (discovered by further reading), as a bus was taken, and that bus route no longer exists
#* writing on a bus is difficult, supporting the theory that the line in the code that was thought to be crossed out may well not be

=====Next Week=====
#finalise visit to the police museum
#view somerton beach
#view Denley's code for generating statistical letter distributions, edit of necessary to simulate certain tests
#*assist Denley with his "changing over time" testing
#view Omar Khayyam, if possible
#organise and view cemetary, taking movie/photos