VB.NET files, listboxes and nested loops exercise.

The assignment is due on Wednesday, March 10^th, 2004

Make sure that your raw text data file with whatever plaintext message is of interest to you is saved inside the Bin folder for your VB.NET project.

The raw text file above was named PlainText.txt. Here are the statements from my VB program that opened the file for input.

Dim fs As New FileStream("PlainText.txt", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)

Dim strHobbits As New StreamReader(fs)

Make sure that you add the “Imports System.IO” statement at the top of your code window, so the FileStream and StreamReader class definitions are available.

Imports System.IO

Public Class frmEncrypt

Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

The encryption method takes every 4^th character of the plaintext from the 4^th character, then every 4^th character from the 3^rd character, then every 4^th character from the 2^nd character, and finally every 4^th character from the 1^st character to create the encrypted by transposition (permutation) ciphertext of the original plaintext message.

1234567890UNI*Panther*Volleyball-rocks!! would be encrypted how?

1234

5678

90UN as

I*Pa 48Naeoylc! 37UPhVelo! 260*t*lars 159Inrlb-k

nthe

r*Vo

lley but without the spaces shown above, it would be

ball

-roc 48Naeoylc!37UPhVelo!260*t*lars159Inrlb-k

ks!!

Be sure to include one line of plaintext that makes it easy to see if your algorithm is correctly converting the plaintext to ciphertext.

12345678abcdABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ makes it easy to

look for an spot

the 48dDH group, then the

37cCG group, followed by the

26bBF group, and ending with the

15aAE group.

The name of my project is FlexGrid, so it is inside the FlexGrid folder that I find the bin folder and save a copy of the input data file (PlainText.txt) there.

My 030Net folder contains all VB.NET projects and work.