Adriana Naydenova Borodzhieva
ABSTRACT
The paper presents software implementations of the Trithemius progressive key using MATLAB. The algorithm for encrypting and decrypting texts with the Trithemius progressive key is modified with the aim of using it for Bulgarian texts. The implementations are done when applying the project-based learning approach in the course “Telecommunication Security” for the seventh-semester students-bachelors from the specialty “Internet and Mobile Communications” at our University. Working on projects, one of the trends of future education, Education 4.0, allows the development of the main 21st-century skills, such as literacy and numeracy, ICT literacy, critical, logical, and analytical thinking, creativity, initiative, problem-solving skills, etc.
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- Software Implementations of the Trithemius Progressive Key for English and Bulgarian Texts Using MATLAB
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