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It will help to also open a new internet window with the letter frequency table.
Let's also cut and paste the CIPHER text into a Word document, make a duplicate copy of the file (so we can make mistakes) and use the Find & Replace feature of Word to convert to plain text. Remember to tell Word to match the case of the letters it is replacing.
Emina Alibegovic, a recent Utah Math Ph.D., assisted during this week of ACCESS several years ago, and found an essay you might find interesting. It's been chopped into eight parts and encrypted using who knows what substitution cipher. According to your group number, download the section of the essay into Word and start deciphering! Your group should recreate the plain text, and as well, create the encryption key. Print out a hard copy of your work. If you have time, notice the encryption key uses a keyword.....use the internet to figure out find out something about the person whose name this keyword is.
If this story is indeed interesting to you and you
would like to find out more on women in Mathematics,
please visit the Women in Math Project,
maintained by Professor Marie Vitulli of the University of Oregon.
This is the most comprehensive site on the subject. (Thanks to
Emily Putnam,
who helped ACCESS two years ago, for this link.)