Problem Set 2: Crypto

tl;dr

  1. Watch Week 2’s lecture.

  2. Infer a user’s initials from their name with initials.c.

  3. Choose two adventures:

    • Implement Caesar’s cipher.

    • Implement Vigenère’s cipher.

    • Crack passwords.

  4. Submit your code.

  5. Submit a form.

Help

For help with Week 2 and Problem Set 2:

  • Attend David’s and Rob’s walkthrough on Wed 9/14, 1pm – 2:30pm, in Sanders.

  • Watch Zamyla’s walkthroughs herein.

  • Attend your TF’s section (or another if you have a conflict).

  • Post questions and search answers in CS50 Discuss.

  • Attend office hours.

Reminders

Per Week 2’s lecture:

  • Use help50 as needed.

  • Use eprintf as needed.

  • Use debug50 as needed.

Getting Started

Alright, here we go again!

Log into cs50.io and execute

update50

within a terminal window to make sure your workspace is up-to-date. If you somehow closed your terminal window (and can’t find it!), make sure that Console is checked under the View menu, then click the green, circled plus (+) in CS50 IDE’s bottom half, then select New Terminal.

Next, execute

mkdir ~/workspace/pset2/

at your prompt in order to make a directory called pset2 in your workspace directory. Take care not to overlook the space between mkdir and ~/workspace/pset2 or any other character for that matter! Keep in mind that ~ denotes your home directory, ~/workspace denotes a directory called workspace therein, and ~/workspace/pset2 denotes a directory called pset2 within ~/workspace.

Now execute

cd ~/workspace/pset2/

to move yourself into (i.e., open) that directory. Your prompt should now resemble the below.

~/workspace/pset2/ $

If not, retrace your steps and see if you can determine where you went wrong. You can actually execute

history

at the prompt to see your last several commands in chronological order if you’d like to do some sleuthing. You can also scroll through the same one line at a time by hitting your keyboard’s up and down arrows; hit Enter to re-execute any command that you’d like.

What to Do

  1. Implement either of:

  2. Implement any two (2) of:

How to Submit

For this problem set, we’ll be using a new submission system based on GitHub, a popular site for storing code. Recall that for Problem Set 0 you signed up (hopefully!) for an account on github.com. The new system’s still in "beta" (a testing phase), so please forgive any bugs! We’ll keep an eye on CS50 Discuss and email over the weekend in case anything goes wrong so that we can fix right away!

Step 1 of 4

Execute

update50

again to ensure that your IDE is up-to-date.

Step 2 of 4

  • Recall that you were asked to implement the less-comfortable or more-comfortable version of initials.

    • Be sure that initials.c is in ~/workspace/pset2/initials, as with:

      cd ~/workspace/pset2/initials/
ls

  • Recall that you were asked to implement any two (2) of caesar, vigenere, and crack.

    • If you implemented caesar, be sure that caesar.c is in ~/workspace/pset2/caesar/.

    • If you implemented vigenere, be sure that vigenere.c is in ~/workspace/pset2/vigenere/.

    • If you implemented crack, be sure that crack.c is in ~/workspace/pset2/crack/.

If not sure how to confirm or fix something, do just reach out to your TF or via CS50 Discuss!

Step 3 of 4

  • To submit initials, execute

    cd ~/workspace/pset2/initials/
submit50 initials

    inputting your GitHub username and GitHub password as prompted.

  • To submit caesar (if you implemented it), execute:

    cd ~/workspace/pset2/caesar/
submit50 caesar

  • To submit vigenere (if you implemented it), execute:

    cd ~/workspace/pset2/vigenere/
submit50 vigenere

  • To submit crack (if you implemented it), execute:

    cd ~/workspace/pset2/crack/
submit50 crack

If you run into any trouble, email sysadmins@cs50.harvard.edu!

You may resubmit any problem as many times as you’d like.

Incidentally, the white and yellow output from submit50 will soon be simplified; it’s some short-term diagnostic output!

Step 4 of 4

Submit https://forms.cs50.net/2016/fall/psets/2!

This was Problem Set 2.

FAQs

command not found

If you execute, e.g.,

submit50 initials

and see

bash: submit50: command not found

odds are you haven’t run update50 again, per Step 1 of 4. Do just re-run update50!

Not a directory

If you execute, e.g.,

cd ~/workspace/pset2/initials/

and see

bash: cd: /home/ubuntu/workspace/pset2/initials/: Not a directory

odds are you don’t have a pset2/ directory inside of ~/workspace/ and/or you don’t have an initials/ directory inside of ~/workspace/pset2/. Check as much using ls (remember how?) or poke around your IDE’s file browser at left. Make sure that:

  • you have a pset2/ directory inside of ~/workspace/,

  • you have an initials/ directory inside of ~/workspace/pset2/, inside of which is initials.c,

  • you have an caesar/ directory inside of ~/workspace/pset2/, inside of which is caesar.c,

  • you have an vigenere/ directory inside of ~/workspace/pset2/, inside of which is vigenere.c, and/or

  • you have an crack/ directory inside of ~/workspace/pset2/, inside of which is crack.c.

The request URL returned error: 403

If you see

fatal: unable to access 'https://username@github.com/submit50/username/': The request URL returned error: 403

when running submit50, where username is your own GitHub username, odds are you haven’t confirmed your email address with GitHub. Visit https://github.com/settings/emails to confirm it, then re-run submit50!